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Roger Lui
Biography
Roger is Senior Partner for Greater China and Financial Institutions Sector Lead. He has over 20 years' experience advising financial institutions, credit funds, sponsors and corporates on a wide range of complex, high-profile and highly structured financing transactions across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Roger has a varied and extensive practice, having regularly advised on project financing, corporate lending, pre-IPO financing, listed share-backed financing, other forms of structured and acquisition financing and real estate financing.
Over the years, Roger has advised on numerous significant, award-winning financing transactions involving market-first features, setting industry precedents. While Roger has returned to practise in Hong Kong since 2001, he started his career at the firm’s London office and has spent time in the Tokyo offices and on client secondment supporting their securitization business; he has a wide view of how financings are and can be structured in different markets. Roger transacts in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and is recognized by clients for his deep knowledge of the markets across the region, the diversity of his practice and his experience in acting for a wide variety of clients.
Practice areas
- Finance
- Project development and finance
- Real estate
- Investment grade debt
Sectors
- Infrastructure and transport
- Banks
- Carbon capture and storage
- Energy networks
- Renewables
- Private capital
- Financial institutions
- Private credit
Selected experience
- The lenders on three parallel financings totaling HKD9.028bn (USD1.15bn) in connection with the establishment of the Goodman Hong Kong Data Centre Partnership, a new USD2.7bn investment vehicle holding four stabilized and two data centers under development.
- The lenders, existing lenders, and agents on Hong Kong’s historic HKD88bn (USD11.3bn) refinancing and alignment of certain New World Development Company Limited’s existing financial indebtedness, enabling the group to better manage its ongoing business and financial needs.
- ESR and Chinachem Group on a HKD8.8bn limited recourse dual tranche limited recourse green loan for the development operate a prime cold storage and logistics facility in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.
- A global financial institution as structuring and drafting counsel on the senior and mezzanine financing of the HKD40.2bn acquisition by the CHMT Peaceful Development Asia Property consortium of The Center, one of Hong Kong’s prime commercial buildings in the city’s business district. The deal won Debt Market Deal of the Year from Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2018.
- A global financial institution as arranger on the financing of a USD2bn convertible preference share as part of the financing for ChemChina’s USD44bn acquisition of Syngenta AG.
- A global financial institution as arranger on a USD120m pre-IPO financing in the form of loan plus warrants, which were exercisable into shares in China Hanking Holdings Limited, and the investors’ exit on IPO.
- 27 multilateral, bilateral and developmental agencies, export credit agencies, Thai and international commercial banks on the greenfield project financing of the Nam Theun 2 hydropower project in Laos. At the time of signing, Nam Theun 2 was the largest foreign investment in Laos, the world's largest private sector cross-border power project financing, the largest private sector hydroelectric project financing, and one of the largest internationally financed IPP projects in Southeast Asia. The deal won “Asia Power Deal of the Year” from Project Finance International Magazine 2005.
Education
- BA, The University of Sydney, 1993
- BA (Juris), Oxford University, 1996
- MA (Juris), Oxford University, 2001
Admissions
- Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1999
- Admitted as solicitor, Hong Kong, 2000
Languages
- Chinese (Cantonese)
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English