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Michelle Lam

Senior Associate
Hong Kong SAR
Senior Associate
Biography
Michelle advises major corporate, private equity and investment banking clients on cross-border mergers & acquisitions across a variety of sectors, including power and energy, infrastructure, real estate and technology.
She previously also advised clients on securities offerings and listings, as well as compliance matters. She is qualified in Hong Kong and England and Wales.
Selected experience
- A leading Middle Eastern sovereign wealth investor on a structured USD1.5 billion equity investment into GLP Group, a pan APAC logistics platform, comprising a structured equity instrument with extensive downside protection and bespoke equity upside arrangements, including a follow-on option to acquire future equity instruments.
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. on its joint venture with Vanguard International Semiconductor to build and operate a 300mm semiconductor fab with total cost of the initial build out anticipated to be USD7.8 billion.
- HPE on a sale of its remaining 9% stake in H3C to a number of investors, including Unisplendour (UNIS) for approximately USD643m.
- A leading Middle Eastern sovereign wealth investor on its investment in ByteDance Ltd. through the acquisition of secondary shares, for a total consideration of USD500m.
- PLDT Inc. and its subsidiaries Smart Communications, Inc. and Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc. on the sale of 7,569 telecom towers and related passive infrastructure to edotco Group, EdgePoint Infrastructure, Frontier Tower Associates Philippines, and Unity Digital Infrastructure (a joint venture between Aboitiz InfraCapital and Partners Group) for PHP98 billion.*
- A consortium led by CVC Capital Partners in its approximately USD1.6bn proposed investment in PT Siloam International Hospitals Tbk, an Indonesian-listed company that is the largest private hospital operator in Indonesia.*
- The Union Bank of the Philippines in connection with its acquisition of the consumer banking business of Citigroup Inc. in the Philippines through a highly competitive auction process.*
- A leading Middle Eastern sovereign wealth investor on a co-investment in a fund managed by an alternative asset management and capital markets company to acquire 100% of the shares of Sapporo Real Estate Co., Ltd. at a valuation of USD3.1b.
- A leading Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on a sale of its interests in One Museum Place in Shanghai to a fund backed by China Post Insurance for USD1.5bn.
- Advent International on its acquisition of a majority stake in the Australian luxury fashion brand ZIMMERMANN.*
Education
- PCLL, The University of Hong Kong, 2018
- LLB, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2017
Admissions
- Solicitor, Hong Kong, 2021 Solicitor, England and Wales, 2020
Languages
- Cantonese
- English
- Mandarin