Follows formal Hong Kong approval for Cooley HK in association with Cai,
Lee & Partners
HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Capital markets lawyer Michael
Yu has joined Cooley as a partner based in Hong
Kong, where he will team with leading Hong Kong corporate lawyer
Will Cai and others. Yu arrives from Sidley Austin.
“Michael has a stellar reputation and brings to Cooley a deep technical
knowledge of Hong Kong IPOs and other capital markets transactions,”
said Dave
Peinsipp, co-head of Cooley’s global capital markets practice
alongside Charlie
Kim. “His strengths add to our robust, firmwide capital markets team
and burgeoning Hong Kong office.”
“Michael and Will are a formidable team, giving us the ability to advise
companies looking to engage in transactions in Hong Kong and the United
States at the highest levels,” said Kim. “Michael also has deep life
sciences experience, including working on the first pre-revenue biotech
company IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange last year, following the
relaxing of listing requirements there.”
Yu’s practice focuses on Hong Kong initial public offerings, as well as
other capital markets transactions, pre-IPO investments, public
takeovers and securities regulation compliance. During the course of his
career, he has worked at firms with industry-leading Hong Kong capital
markets practices, spending extensive time as issuer, sponsor and
underwriter counsel, as well as gaining deep regulatory experience with
the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures
Commission.
Yu, who speaks native Mandarin, is Hong Kong and New York qualified. He
graduated from Peking University Law School and New York University
School of Law.
“As a world-renowned capital markets powerhouse with a firm commitment
to expanding its Asia-Pacific
presence, Cooley is an excellent fit for my practice,” said Yu. “I
look forward to contributing to the global capital markets group’s
continued achievement and helping to build out the Asia capital markets
practice.”
Following on the success of Cooley’s Shanghai and Beijing offices, which
opened in 2011 and 2018, respectively, the
firm expanded in the Asia-Pacific region by launching in Hong Kong.
Last month, the Law Society of Hong Kong approved Cooley HK as a
registered foreign law firm and its entry into an association with Cai,
Lee & Partners. Yu will also become a partner of Cai, Lee & Partners.
Cooley is one of the world’s top firms working on global capital
markets transactions for non-US issuers. The firm represents some of
Asia’s most innovative and dynamic technology and life sciences
companies, advising on their financing, joint venture and other
strategic transactions. In addition, Cooley has helped more than 80 fund
managers form 100+ Chinese venture capital and private equity funds.
It was named Investment Funds International Firm of the Year at the
China Law & Practice Awards and has been broadly recognized for its
strong technology, life sciences and VC practices. Cooley is the #1 law
firm for advising VC-backed companies going public for the last 15 years
and represents 6,000+ private companies and 1,200+ publicly traded
companies.
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