Andrew has been a corporate partner at Herbert Smith since 1994. Based in Hong Kong since 1990 his wide-ranging practice encompasses equity corporate finance and initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and investments funds. His clients range from Hong Kong, UK and US listed companies, financial institutions and investment banks to listed and private investment and financial services groups.
Credentials
- IBM on the sale of its personal computer division to Lenovo Group Limited, the largest PC maker in the PRC, for a total consideration of US$1.25 billion. IBM took an 18.9% stake in Lenovo. It is the largest overseas acquisition by a Chinese technology company
- Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston and Bank of China International on a dual listing by IPO of shares and ADSs of CNOOC Ltd on the Hong Kong and New York Stock Exchanges raising US$1.436 billion in total
- Merrill Lynch in its capacity as financial adviser to Cable & Wireless on the competitive bid for Cable & Wireless HKT by Singapore Telecom and Pacific Century CyberWorks
- a private equity investor on a potential acquisition of PCCW, one of Asia's leading players in Information and Communications Technologies
- Dah Sing Financial Holdings and Dah Sing Banking Group ("DSBG") in relation to the separate listing of DSBG on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Prior to the separate listing, the group was re-organised to consolidate all of the banking-related business of the group into DSBG