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Jeremy Leifer
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Jeremy Leifer is a dual Hong Kong and English-qualified Partner in the Corporate Department, resident in Hong Kong, where he has practised for more than 20 years.

Jeremy’s practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities issues, and commercial contracts, including joint venture arrangements. He also has experience in handling financing transactions involving borrowers who are subject to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Rules and the Hong Kong Takeovers Code, and the related regulatory framework of which he has in-depth knowledge.

His recent representations include:

Two global investment banks acting as joint global coordinators for the listing of a PRC-based retailer and manufacturer on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Auchan as the controlling shareholder of Sun Art Retail Group Limited on the listing of Sun Art on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Publicis Groupe on the acquisition of PR and communications events organizing businesses in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore
The restructuring of a PRC joint venture in the hypermarket sector with a market value of $4.5 billion
The Asian Development Bank in its investment in Hainan Airport

Other representations Jeremy has handled include:

Capital Markets

Pacific Alliance as the controlling shareholder of Goodbaby International Holdings Limited on its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
A subsidiary of Temasek on its subscription for domestic shares and warrants in a Hong Kong-listed PRC media company
The Asian Development Bank on its subscription for shares and convertible notes in China Gas Holdings Limited
Deephaven Capital Management, a U.S.-based hedge fund, on its subscription for shares and convertible notes in Sino Gas Group Limited
Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited on its purchase of shares in EMER International Group Limited (now TSC Offshore Group Limited)
Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. in placings by Citigroup of shares in Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, with an aggregate value of $330 million
Several Hong Kong-listed companies on tender offers for the buyback of their bonds

M&A/Private Equity

A global investment bank on the restructuring of its pre-IPO investment in a Chinese chemicals company
GE on the disposal of the Hong Kong arm of its plastics business to SABIC
Colony Capital on its acquisition of 100 percent of the Raffles chain of hotels
Orascom Telecom in the $1.3 billion acquisition of a 19.3 percent interest in Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited from Hutchison Whampoa Limited and acting on the disposal of the stake at a later date through block trades and the sale of the remaining balance of the stake back to the original seller and related parties
Office Depot on its acquisition of an office supplies company in China
A major European telecommunications company on its proposed investment into an H-share telecommunications company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Aspocomp, a Finnish based manufacture of PCBs for mobile phones in the disposal of an 80 percent interest of its manufacturing business in China, India and Finland to a Hong Kong listed company, with an option to the buyer to purchase the remaining 20 percent
Luvata, a Finnish based manufacture whose businesses includes metal fabrication and component manufacturing, in the acquisition of the remaining shareholding of a Chinese joint venture making copper tubing for air conditioners
The controlling shareholders of Korean life insurance company in their planned disposal of the life insurance company
A major Asian based private equity group on various structured investments in China

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