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Alex Tao
Position
Partner
Career
With over a decade of experience, Hong Kong based capital markets partner Alex Tao’s practice covers a wide range of international capital markets transactions, including high-yield, investment-grade and convertible debt financings and liability management transactions. He regularly represents issuers, investment banks and other investors in the equity and debt capital markets space, including SEC-registered offerings, Hong Kong IPOs and Rule 144A/Regulation S debt offerings of both PRC and regional companies, advising across a wide variety of sectors, including technology, media and telecom, real estate, consumer products, energy and oil and gas.
Education
LL.M. University of Chicago Law School; LL.B. Fudan University
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong > Capital markets (debt)
(Leading individuals)The ‘professional and efficient’ team at Milbank handles a range of DCM work for issuers and underwriters both in relation to Hong Kong and China, as well as across numerous other Southeast Asian capital markets regimes. Alex Tao has been pivotal to growing the amount of China-related work handled by the firm and since arriving in mid-2020 has effectively targeted real estate high yield issuers, as well as handling an increasing volume of investment grade mandates. James Grandolfo
co-heads the team alongside Tao and continues to thrive on behalf of underwriting banks, in particular, on Philippines-related DCM work.