Linklaters

Profession

Solicitor of the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Experience

Teresa is experienced in UK and HK company law, public and private mergers and acquisitions (especially of a cross-border nature), and international equity issues. Prior to qualification as a solicitor, she worked for major investment banks in Hong Kong and London.  As counsel, she has advised on public takeover offers in multiple jurisdictions, including more than 20 transactions in Hong Kong and/or elsewhere in the past few years and led significant global initial public offerings and listings.

Involvement in major M&A transactions includes acting for:

Major transactions include:

• global offering and Hong Kong listing of AIA Group
• global offering and concurrent Hong Kong and Paris listings of United Company RUSAL 
• global offering and Hong Kong listing of IRC in a spin-off by London listed Petropavlovsk
• sale of AEGON’s life insurance business in Taiwan
• Sinopec’s privatisation of Beijing Yanhua, the first H-share concurrent HK and US offers
• Tom Group’s privatisation of Tom Online (listed in HK and US)
• privatisation by CITIC and General Electric of Asia Satellite (listed in HK and US)
• HSBC’s takeover offer for IL&FS (listed commodities broker in India)
• First Pacific’s offer for Del Monte (listed in Singapore)
• China Mobile’s offer for China Resources Peoples Telephone
• China Netcom’s merger with China Unicom
• privatisation of Asia Aluminum Holdings Limited
• reverse takeover and listing by Haier Corporation of CCT Telecom
• Delong Holdings’ acquisition and possible takeover offer by Evraz
• Angang Steel’s concurrent rights issues of A shares and H shares
• chain rights issues by members of the Pacific Andes Group in Hong Kong and Singapore
• share repurchase by Lee Hing Development from Parkway
• CITIC Securities’ proposed cross investment and joint venture with Bear Stearns
• Nippon Paper’s strategic investment in Lee & Man Paper
• sale by Mizuho Corporation Bank of Chekiang First Bank

• the pre-conditional possible privatisation of Little Sheep by Yum! Brands Inc

Professional experience

2011 to date member of the Hong Kong Takeovers and Mergers Panel and the Takeovers Appeal Committee
2010 to date Partner, Linklaters Shanghai
2002 - 2010 Partner, Linklaters, Hong Kong
2001 - Partner, Linklaters, London
1995 - 2001 Solicitor, Linklaters, London
1993 - 1995 Trainee Solicitor, Linklaters, London and Hong Kong
1989 - 1990 Senior Associate, Bankers Trust, London
1985 - 1988 Analyst, Jardine Fleming, Hong Kong

Education

1999 - 2001 London Business School, London, UK
1992 - 1993 College of Law, London, UK
1990 - 1992 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
1981 - 1982 University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
1976 - 1980 University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Languages

Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Thai