Owen Chan leads a bilingual team of international banking and finance lawyers based in Hong Kong and Mainland China, working with international financial institutions, PE funds, and multinational companies on their most complex and structured cross-border transactions.

Representative experience

• Advising a syndicate of banks comprising Citibank, Bank of China, BTMU, China Construction Bank, HSBC, ANZ, SCB, Mizuho, China Development Bank, Bank of Communications, Hang Seng Bank, and Westpac on the US$4,650bn term and revolving loan facilities to Tencent Asset Management Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Limited.

• Advising a syndicate of 11 banks in relation to a US$3.2bn loan to the COFCO group to finance COFCO's acquisitions of a 51% stake in Noble Group Limited's agri-business, and a 51% stake in Nidera, the Dutch commodity trader and agribusiness company.

• Advising Gaw Capital's subsidiaries on an offshore and onshore financing to partially finance its acquisition of a Shanghai property holding group and such financings are supported by onshore and offshore mortgages over a Shanghai property.

• Advising a syndicate of 24 banks led by Bank of China in relation to a multiple currency term loan facilities granted to Zhongyu Gas.

• Acting for a syndicate of 21 banks led by Citigroup in relation to a US$400m revolving facility granted to a manufacturer on cable, connector for 3Cs, automobile and medical, and supported by PRC listco outbound guarantee.

• Advising the mandated lead arrangers on US$4.44bn five-year term and revolving facilities to Tencent.