Jay Lee joins K&L Gates in Hong Kong office
A partner in the capital markets practice area from Simmons & Simmons has been hired by K&L Gates, a top 40 American law
By : Legal Era
Update: 2022-11-10 08:15 GMT
Jay Lee joins K&L Gates in Hong Kong office
A partner in the capital markets practice area from Simmons & Simmons has been hired by K&L Gates, a top 40 American law firm, to work from its Hong Kong office.
For the past ten years, Jay Lee worked at Simmons, and before that, he was an associate at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and the head of debt capital markets legal for Northeast Asia at Standard Chartered Bank.
Lee is qualified to practice in both the United States and Hong Kong, and he advises banks and enterprises on bond, equity-linked products, and asset-backed security transactions. Additionally, he provides counsel on structured debt instruments and derivatives transactions, as well as M&A, asset management, and other business and financial issues.
Jason Opperman, a partner at K&L Gates and a co-leader of the firm's international finance group, expressed his excitement about Jay's arrival. "His background in DCM and knowledge of working across key regional markets in Asia will strengthen our already formidable Asia-Pacific and worldwide capabilities."
Corporations, private equity firms, asset managers, and alternative asset management firms from throughout the world, including the People's Republic of China, are among Lee's clientele.
K&L Gates's website states that its Hong Kong office has 35 lawyers, putting it around the same size as Simmons' Hong Kong outpost. The Legal 500 has praised the firm's investment funds and general corporate practice. David Tang, the managing partner for Asia, remarked that Lee's hiring will improve the firm's debt capital markets capabilities throughout the region.
Shortly after Linklaters' capital markets partner, Iris Leung switched to K&L Gates, Lee became the firm's 18th partner in Hong Kong. Leung, like Lee, is dual-qualified in the United States and Hong Kong and brings to the table experience advising issuers and underwriters on high-profile listings of Chinese and multinational companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as well as having worked with investment banks and private equity and venture capital funds on capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.