Yuki Yan 颜玉丽

Yuki is a partner based in Ogier's Hong Kong office. Yuki has extensive experience advising on a broad range of banking and financing transactions, debt capital markets transactions and restructuring, including structured finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, fund finance, pre-IPO finance, real estate finance, margin finance and general corporate lending. Yuki also regularly advises on corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, pre-IPO investments, initial public offerings and private equity.

Background and experience

Yuki has extensive experience in debt capital markets transactions, structured finance, acquisition finance, fund finance, pre-IPO finance, real estate finance, margin finance and general corporate lending, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and private equity.

Yuki is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency team and has considerable experience on refinancing, corporate restructuring and reorganisations and debt restructuring.

Being a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English and Cantonese, Yuki regularly advises major international and PRC financial institutions, PRC state-owned enterprises, listed and private companies and investment funds on banking and finance transactions of all types.

Prior to joining Ogier, Yuki is trained with Jun He Law Offices in Hong Kong and qualified into its corporate and finance team focusing on corporate and finance transactions.

Yuki received her Bachelor of Laws from China University of Political Science and Law in 2009 and her Juris Doctor from City University of Hong Kong in 2012. She completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at City University of Hong Kong in 2013.

Representative transactions:

• acted as BVI counsel to a syndicate led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, United Overseas Bank Limited and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited on a USD1.13 billion green loan to the ESR Group and Chinachem Group to develop and operate a prime cold storage and logistics facility in Kwai Chung.

• acted as BVI counsel to Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited as the guarantor and Contemporary Ruiding Development Limited as issuer on the issue of US$1 billion 1.875% Guaranteed Bonds due 2025 and US$500 million 2.625% Guaranteed Bonds due 2030.

• acted as Cayman Islands counsel in connection to a tender offer by Lenovo Perpetual Securities Limited, a Cayman special purpose vehicle of the Lenovo Group, for its outstanding US$1 Billion 5.375% perpetual securities in the form of cumulative preferred shares.

• acted as Cayman Islands counsel to the International Finance Corporation on the launch of a US$100 million 10-year social bond, being the Philippines' first ever social bond in the healthcare sector.

• acted as BVI counsel to a syndicated led by Crédit Agricole, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, United Overseas Bank Limited, and other syndicated lenders on HK$1.6 billion sustainability linked loan facilities to finance the conversion of an industrial cold storage building to an en-bloc high-tech data centre.

• acted as Cayman or BVI counsel of major international banks, Chinese banks and securities houses in setting up offshore structured notes programmes and issuing structured notes.

Admitted in:
2020 - England and Wales
2015 - Hong Kong (non practising)

Yuki is a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong.