Mourant continues to receive praise regarding its banking and finance teams, advising on leveraged acquisition finance, fund finance, and asset finance, working with many of the leading private equity sponsors and private credit funds. From a corporate and investment funds perspective, the team remains a key figure for intricate private equity, acquisitions, privatisations, mergers, and investment fund formation matters in the region. Senior Partner, Asia, Paul Christopher provides crucial leadership to the corporate and investment funds team. Managing partner Danielle Roman heads the firm’s leading banking & finance practice. Simon Lawrenson‘s practice spans the full range of debt products, including acquisition and leveraged finance, as well as real estate and asset finance. Justine Lau helps guide clients through challenging restructuring and insolvency issues.
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Corporate and Investment Funds
Position
Paul is the regional Managing Partner of Mourant Asia and the Managing Partner of the Mourant Hong Kong office. He is also the Practice Leader of the firm's Corporate and Investment Funds team in Asia.
Paul regularly advises on corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions (public and private), investment funds, joint ventures and the restructuring of companies and structures. These will often be complex and/or private equity-related transactions.
Paul has been ranked as a leading individual by Chambers and Partners since 2008 (initially in the United Kingdom and then Asia) and the Legal 500 since 2015. Since 2020 he has been listed in the A-List Offshore Lawyers category in the Asia Business Law Journal and in the A-List China's Elite Foreign Lawyers category in the China Business Law Journal.
Career
Paul has been with Mourant since 1999.
Education
- Solicitor, British Virgin Islands, 2013
- Advocate, Guernsey, 2003
- Solicitor, England, 1999 (currently non-practising)
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Testimonials
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‘They pride themselves on being partner-led, with a very strong technical team, which is equipped to advise on the largest and most complex deals in the market.'
‘Danielle Roman is proactively curious about the challenges faced by clients and takes a tailored and personalised approach to her relationships. When it comes to fund finance, she is the most experienced offshore fund finance lawyer in the Asian fund finance space.'
‘Justine Lau is a good litigator, responsive and commercial.’
‘The team is very responsive, technically good and has a very good understanding of the market and the key trends as they emerge.’
‘James Broad is excellent. He is technically very good; he is responsive and available when needed and delivers great service.’
‘Very responsive. Hands on across the board. Great collaboration.’
‘Danielle Roman is my first pick offshore counsel for any fund financing matters.'
‘Danielle Roman, who manages the Hong Kong office and leads the Fund Finance practice, is entirely across the Fund Finance market, by virtue of her deal coverage and also her leadership in the Fund Finance Association.'
Key clients
- Crédit Agricole CIB China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited Natixis CBC Group Superscrypt Prenetics Global Limited LakeShore Biopharma Co Ltd Wavemaker Partners MicroBit Capital Management
Work highlights
Acted as joint Cayman counsel for Crédit Agricole CIB and China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited in respect of CALC's inaugural US$400 million warehouse facility provided by BNP Paribas.
Advised Hollysys Automation Technologies on the BVI law aspects in relation to its USD1.66 billion privatisation by Ascendent Capital Partners.
Act for each of the Receivers, the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Green Heaven, and August Gold in their capacities as receivers of shares of various BVI companies.