James Chen is a partner representing a broad range of clients, including
multinational corporations, private equity firms, and industrial companies based in
Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Indonesia, in their cross-border mergers and
acquisitions. He also represents issuers, borrowers, lenders, and underwriters in a
variety of corporate finance transactions. His experience includes public offerings
and private placements of equity, debt, convertible, and other securities, export
credit facilities, bank loans, securitization of accounts receivable, trade
financing, and derivative transactions.
James has vast experience in the People's Republic of China (PRC),
having represented issuers and underwriters in several IPO and B share listings in
the PRC. He acted for foreign investors in the negotiation and documentation of more
than 40 joint ventures and foreign wholly owned projects, including US$4 billion
expansion projects for a paper manufacturer in the PRC.
Prior to joining the firm, James spent three years as a chief legal
officer with a major Asian conglomerate in Singapore, and more than eight years in
private practice with an international firm in its New York, Hong Kong, and
Singapore offices.
