King & Wood Mallesons

With a vastly experienced team based in Hong Kong and also able to leverage huge resources on the ground on the Mainland, King & Wood Mallesons is particularly skilled at advising buy and sell-side clients across a range of structured finance and derivatives products involving a nexus to China. Drawing upon its strong regulatory and transactional sensibilities, the team has gained plaudits for its ability to provide ‘very competent and practical advice on complex and sophisticated matters, particularly those requiring innovative solutions’. Recognised as the ’premier law firm when it comes to structured products for retail clients in Hong Kong’, the firm advises the majority of issuers in the listed and unlisted market. Leveraging her transactional and regulatory expertise, the ‘very responsive and approachable’ Minny Siu excels in the retail space, including work for clients looking to formulate new products, such as Goldman Sachs on its debut launch of derivative warrants linked to major single US stocks listed on the HKEX. The ’technically very strong yet also commercially driven’ Angus Sip also excels in retail work, as well as regularly advising arrangers and investors in relation to structuring of bespoke structured notes or repackaged transactions across different asset classes. Andrew Fei is noted for his thought leadership and regulatory skill in the area, and as well as advising a myriad market participants on derivatives and structured products is also noted for his work on behalf of industry association International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), including in the context of China netting and collateral opinions. Richard Mazzochi co-heads the team alongside Siu.