Adele Zhang is a Registered Foreign Lawyer in the firm’s Banking & Finance Department and is based in the Hong Kong office. She was admitted as a lawyer in PRC in 2012 and has over 10 years of experience.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Representing and advising China Great Wall AMC (International) Holdings Company Limited in its HKD term loan financing for HNA EcoTech Pioneer Acquisition.
Representing and advising China-Africa Fund for Industrial Cooperation in its provision of US$50 million financing loan project for Chengtun Global Resources Investment Limited in relation to its copper and cobalt smelter project in Congo-Kinshasa.
Representing and advising Chong Hing Bank Limited in the successful completion of providing Fung Holdings (1937) Limited with HKD1.4 billion term loan financing.
Representing and advising China Great Wall AMC (International) Holdings Company Limited in its HKD term loan financing for HNA EcoTech Pioneer Acquisition.
Representing and advising China-Africa Fund for Industrial Cooperation in its provision of US$50 million financing loan project for Chengtun Global Resources Investment Limited in relation to its copper and cobalt smelter project in Congo-Kinshasa.
Representing and advising Chong Hing Bank Limited in the successful completion of providing Fung Holdings (1937) Limited with HKD1.4 billion term loan financing.
Representing and advising Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. in its financing project in an amount of nearly US$2 billion.
Representing and advising Shanghai Decent Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. in the financing for a US$550 million project with an Indonesian project company, which was led by BNP Paribas, for the purpose of funding the project company’s development of a 3.5-million tons/year integrated steel plant in central Indonesia, involving land mortgages, insurance claims/receivables/chattel trust guarantees, transfer of major project documents, pledge of the project company’s shares, sponsors' capital increase commitments, pledge of accounts, and many other complex credit enhancement approaches.
Advising an Indonesian project company in a US$ project financing between BNP Paribas and the project company. The company has a multi-layer JV structure, where Tsingshan Holding Group Company Limited and Shanghai Decent Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. were the Chinese substantial shareholders of the Indonesian project company. The project financing involved multiple methods of guarantee, including local land mortgages in Indonesia, insurance claims/receivables/chattel trust guarantees, transfer of major project documents and pledge of the project company’s shares.
Representing a real estate developer in Hong Kong (as the borrower) and acting as its chief counsel in its dual-currency parallel onshore and offshore parallel syndicated loan financing arrangement, in a loan amount as high as US$773 million and RMB1.2 billion and involving multi-jurisdictional complex guarantee arrangements.
Representing and assisting Road King Infrastructure Limited, Pingan Real Estate Capital Limited (平安房地产资本有限公司) and its joint venture in their HKD2.34 billion syndicated term loan financing to fund a residential site development project adjacent to the Wong Chuk Hang MTR Station.
Representing and advising Hammer Capital Private Investments Limited in its HKD term loan financing, where guarantees of Hong Kong-listed shares and other complex forms of guarantees in several other jurisdictions were involved.
Representing and advising Southwest Securities (Hong Kong) Brokerage Limited (西南证券（香港）经纪有限公司) in its HKD term loan financing. Providing financing for a listed company’s mandatory general offer of shares.
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of Hong Kong, 2010, LL.M.
- Dalian Maritime University, 2009, LL.B.
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- China
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- Member of the Law Society of Hong Kong