Corporate law specialist Rachel Huang joins the Ogier partnership

Ogier continues to strengthen its Corporate team with the promotion of Rachel Huang to partner in the firm's Hong Kong office.

Rachel, who graduated from Ogier's partner development programme, regularly advises both international and Chinese clients across a broad range of corporate, fundraising and financing transactions, and has worked on some of the region's most complex transactions.

A Mandarin speaker, who is also fluent in English and Cantonese, Rachel's practice includes initial public offerings (IPOs) in Hong Kong and the United States, pre-IPO investments, mergers and acquisitions, special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listings, de-SPAC transactions, private equity and general corporate matters. Rachel also has extensive experience in debt capital market transactions, debt restructuring and bank financing.

Rachel is the seventh partner to join the Corporate team in the last 12 months, reflecting its continued growth. Global head of Corporate, Nathan Powell, said: "Rachel consistently demonstrates her expertise and commitment to excellent client service. Her progression to partnership demonstrates Ogier's focus on developing the fantastic talent in our teams. Her promotion also adds further strength in depth to the Corporate team, ensuring we can continue to respond to client demand and market opportunities as we look ahead to 2023."

Some of the key transactions Rachel has worked on include advising Blue Safari Group Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, on its US$50 million IPO on Nasdaq and its proposed US$4 billion business combination transaction with Bitdeer Technologies Holding Company, a world-leading technology company for the cryptocurrency mining community. She also led a team working with Tus-Holdings Co, Ltd, acting as BVI counsel, in obtaining consent from its bondholders to extend two tranches of offshore US dollar bonds totalling US$950 million.