Rowan Wu

Experience Highlights

• Advised China Aoyuan Property Group Limited in connection with the issue of US$300 million 11.25% senior notes due 2019.
• Acting as BVI counsel to FountainVest Partners (Asia) Limited on the US$64 million acquisition of LJ International Inc. by way of merger. LJ International Inc. is incorporated in the BVI and a leading coloured gemstone and diamond jeweler.
• Acted as Bermuda counsel to Noble Group Limited (the “Company”) on its award-winning global restructuring which won the 2019 IFLR Asia Pacific Award “Restructuring Deal of the Year”. This was a highly complex transaction involving parallel schemes of arrangement in England and Bermuda, the appointment of a provisional liquidator in Bermuda to transfer the assets of the Company to Noble Group Holdings Limited, and Chapter 15 proceedings in the United States.
• Advised Lvji Technology Holdings Inc. in connection with its HK$747.7 million initial public offering of 352,700,000 Shares on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (Stock code: 1745).
• Advised UP Fintech Holding Limited in connection with its approximately US$120.4 million initial public offering of 14,950,000 ADSs, and private placement of 13,125,000 Class A ordinary shares, listed on NASDAQ.
• Advised Agile Group Holdings Limited in connection with its CCBC HK$400 million term loan facility, secured by guarantees and share charges over BVI and Hong Kong subsidiaries and governed by an existing intercreditor agreement.
• Advised Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation on its multi-tranche equity fundraising exercise by way of placement of 241,418,625 new shares and an offering of US$65 million 2.0% perpetual subordinated convertible bonds, which raised approximately US$969 million (assuming pre-emptive rights of its two substantial shareholders are exercised).
• Advised Shanghai-listed ENN Ecological Holdings Co., Ltd. in connection with its US$750 million acquisition of 11.7% stake in Australian-energy company, Santos Limited from Robust Nation Investments Limited.

Professional Background

• Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
• Conyers Dill & Pearman, Hong Kong

Education

• The University of Hong Kong, Postgraduate Certificate in Law, 2002
• University of London, LLB, 2000

Bar Admissions

• High Courts of Hong Kong, Solicitor, 2008

Languages

• Cantonese
• English
• Mandarin

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