With extensive experience advising on a wide variety of high-profile transactions for clients across Asia, David Yun is Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Hong Kong office. Large corporations, private equity sponsors and financial institutions alike turn to David for guidance on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions. He also has extensive experience advising on regulatory and compliance matters, structured and debt financings, corporate governance and securities offerings.
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Work Highlights
Recent representative transactions include representing:
- XPeng in its US$700 million strategic investment by the Volkswagen Group
- Blackstone Capital Partners in its US$712 million acquisition of International Gemological Institute from Fosun International
- The Toronto-Dominion Bank in its US$1.3 billion takeover of Cowen
- Primavera Capital Acquisition Corporation in its US$1.9 billion de-SPAC merger with Lanvin Group
- Lexington Partners in its US$1,750 million sale of Lexington Partners Asia to Franklin Templeton
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners in its proposed HK$23.7 billion takeover of SOHO China
- A consortium of financial investors led by Mr Se Hok Pan in its privatisation of Nature Home Holding
- Primavera Capital Group in its multi-billion acquisition of the Greater China Business of Mead Johnson Nutrition
- JP Morgan and the other underwriters in the US$858 million concurrent secondary offering of dual-listed shares by Zai Lab
Education
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University of New South Wales, 1991 LL.B.
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University of New South Wales, 1990 B.Com.
Admissions
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Hong Kong 1997
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England and Wales 1997
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New South Wales 1992
With extensive experience advising on a wide variety of high-profile transactions for clients across Asia, David Yun is Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Hong Kong office. Large corporations, private equity sponsors and financial institutions alike turn to David for guidance on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions. He also has extensive experience advising on regulatory and compliance matters, corporate governance, pre-IPO restructuring and investment, convertibles and structured products, corporate and debt restructurings, structured and debt financings, securities offerings. stamp duty and employment matters. David also works on pro bono matters for charitable organizations in his community.
In addition to regularly speaking at professional education courses, David authored a chapter for two Practitioner’s Guide to the Hong Kong Takeovers Code—and served as the consulting editor for one of the guides—as well as the Hong Kong chapter for Practical Law: Shareholders’ Rights Global Guide by Thomson Reuters. David was also a member of the consulting editorial board for LexisNexis Practical Guidance in corporate law.
David received his LL.B. in 1991 and his B.Com. (Accounting) in 1990 from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is admitted to practice in Hong Kong, England and Wales, and New South Wales. David is fluent in Cantonese.