Cynthia qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2008. She joined the firm in 2011 and specialises in corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and general commercial work. She also provides post-IPO general compliance advice to corporations.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Acting for Henan Jinma Energy Company Limited (a company listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) in respect of its application to spin-off its subsidiary Henan Jinyuan Hydrogenated Chemicals Co., Ltd. for separate listing, and advised Henan Jinyuan Hydrogenated Chemicals Co., Ltd. for its IPO on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This IPO was awarded Equity Capital Market Deals of the Year 2023 by China Business Law Journal.
Advising Weichai Power Co. Ltd. (stock code: 2338) on its RMB13 billion (US$2 billion) new A share issue.
Advising Sinotruk (Hong Kong) Ltd (stock code: 3808) on the RMB7 billion (US$1.08 billion) new share placement of its Shanghai listed subsidiary Sinotruk Jinan Truck Co., Ltd
Acting for Henan Jinma Energy Company Limited (a company listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) in respect of its application to spin-off its subsidiary Henan Jinyuan Hydrogenated Chemicals Co., Ltd. for separate listing, and advised Henan Jinyuan Hydrogenated Chemicals Co., Ltd. for its IPO on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This IPO was awarded Equity Capital Market Deals of the Year 2023 by China Business Law Journal.
Advising Weichai Power Co. Ltd. (stock code: 2338) on its RMB13 billion (US$2 billion) new A share issue.
Advising Sinotruk (Hong Kong) Ltd (stock code: 3808) on the RMB7 billion (US$1.08 billion) new share placement of its Shanghai listed subsidiary Sinotruk Jinan Truck Co., Ltd
Acting for CMBC International Capital Limited (as IPO sponsor and global coordinator) in relation to the IPO of Newborn Town Inc. (a mobile app developer and mobile advertising platform services provider powered by AI technologies) on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. With the public offering being over-subscribed by 1,441 times, this was the most over-subscribed IPO in Hong Kong in 2019.
Acted as the Hong Kong legal advisers to Jinma Energy in respect of the listing of its H shares on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited by way of a HK public offer and a global offering
Advised Huili Resources (Group) Limited (a nickel oriented diversified metal mining and ore processing company) in relation to its pre-IPO exchangeable bond issue to CCB International Asset Management Limited and acted for Huili Resources on its eventual IPO on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It was the first company listed pursuant to the then new Mineral Companies rules.
Advised Hong Kong listed Man Sang International Limited on its spin-off by way of Introduction and separate listing of Man Sang Jewelry Holdings Limited on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Advised Profit Summit Investments Limited on its US$284 million pre-IPO guaranteed secured exchangeable note issue. Profit Summit’s owner is a co-founder and shareholder of WH Group Limited (formerly Shuanghui International Holdings Limited), which acquired the U.S. based Smithfield Foods, Inc. in 2013 and became the largest pork company in the world.
Assisted China Electronics Optics Valley Union Holding Company (HKEx listed) on its acquisition of the electronic information technology industrial park project from China Electronics Corporation Holding (HKEx listed) and the issue of consideration shares and further new shares (constituting a controlling interest) to CECH (subject to the Securities and Futures Commission granting its whitewash waiver for the general offer obligation) and the placing of further new shares to third parties (aggregating HK$3.2 billion), and the disposal by Optics Valley of two property projects to Hubei Science & Technology Investment Group (aggregating HK$654 million), such disposals constituted Special Deals under the Hong Kong Takeovers Code.
Advised Winox Holdings Limited, a leading watch bracelets, costume jewelry and accessories producer for internationally renowned brands, on its IPO.
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of Hong Kong, 2006, Postgraduate Certificate in Laws
- University of Hong Kong, 2005, Bachelor of Law
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Hong Kong
Court admissions
Court admissions
- High Court - Hong Kong
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- Member of The Law Society of Hong Kong