Tenured private equity expert Maurice Hoo heads up the operation at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which executes a variety of transactions, spanning big-ticket privatisations and IPOs, tender offers, acquisitions, share transfers, and various financing transactions. The team, which includes experienced fund operations and PE transactions advisor Connie Cheung, counts numerous prominent regional private equity funds in its client roster, working with them from formation to downstream transactional work. Also on staff are Ning Zhang, who is well-versed in high-profile cross-border deals, and Kuhan Wei, who takes on everything from joint ventures and growth capital investments, to PIPE transactions.
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Key clients
- CS Capital
- HongShan Capital
- Bruker Corporation
- Hillhouse Capital Management
- B Capital Group Management
- IDG
- Centurium Capital
Work highlights
Advised CMG-SDIC Capital Co., Ltd. as the general partner of Future Industry Investment Fund II on the USD2bn privatisation of China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings Co. Limited and its withdrawal of listing from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Represented HongShan Capital in connection with its participation in a tender offer deal of the shares of Canva, Inc.
Represented Bruker Corporation in its $392.6m acquisition of NanoString Technologies, Inc.
Practice head
Maurice Hoo
Other key lawyers
Connie Cheung; Ning Zhang; Kuhan Wei; Edwin Luk