Carol Chan

Carol Chan is Counsel in the firm’s Hong Kong office. She joined the firm in 2015. Carol has about 15 years of experience, focusing on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions involving listed and private companies, and securities law compliance matters. Carol has advised on the Hong Kong listings of numerous state-owned and private enterprises.

Carol has been actively participating in the innovative listing projects in the Hong Kong market, such as secondary listing, follow-on offerings, matters involved Weighted-Voting-Rights and in the biotechnology field.

Carol's representative transactions include representing: 

• PT Merdeka Gold Resources in its secondary listing of Hong Kong depositary receipts (HDR)
• Underwriters in the Hong Kong IPO and Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by HashKey Holdings Limited
• Underwriters in the Hong Kong dual primary listing of Kingsoft Cloud by way of introduction
• Preparation for the listings of H-share and A-share of Ant Group
• Underwriters in the Hong Kong secondary listing of Zai Lab and the follow-on offering
• Underwriters in the US$150 million equity offering of Zai Lab
• Underwriters in the Hong Kong IPO and R144A/Regulation S offering by Shinsun, Kaisa Property, Babytree Group, Greentown Service Group, Haichang Holdings, Zhong Ao Home Group Limited and Sinomax Group
• HTSC, FIT Hon Teng, Natural Food, Beijing Digital Telecom and China Nonferrous Mining Corporation in its Hong Kong IPO and R144A/Regulation S offering
• Kuaishou Technology in its US$2 billion equivalent multiple-tranche, dual-currency senior notes offerings 
• Tewoo Group Co. Ltd. in its bonds issuance 
• Antfin (Hong Kong) Holding Limited in its participation in a consortium to make the mandatory general offer and privatisation of Clear Media Limited
• Primavera Capital Group and FountainVest Partners in their acquisition of Janstar Investment Limited from EQT Partners 
• Yunfeng Financial Group in its acquisition of 60% stake in MassMutual Asia 
• J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC in its acquisition of 100% of the shares of Chi-X Global Holdings LLC's subsidiaries in each of Australia, Japan and Hong Kong 
• Unis Technology Strategy Investment Limited in its subscription for shares and convertible bonds, and mandatory general offer for Sun East Technology (Holdings) Limited
• ChemChina in the completion of the first settlement of its tender offer for the Swiss agrochemical and seeds company Syngenta AG

Carol received her B.B.A. in Law and LL.B. from University of Hong Kong in 2007 and 2009 representatively. She was admitted to The High Court of the Hong Kong SAR in 2012. She is also a qualified solicitor in England and Wales. Carol is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.