OVERVIEW
Lorraine is a partner of the Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Hong Kong office. Her practice covers corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financing, with particular focus on private equity investments, structured finance products, pre-IPO financings, and IPOs of BVI and Cayman Islands companies on global stock exchanges, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. Lorraine also regularly advises clients in China on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions.
BACKGROUND
Lorraine joined the Maples Group in 2007 and was elected as a partner in 2016. She previously worked for Richards Butler in Hong Kong. Lorraine is a native Cantonese speaker and is fluent in Mandarin. She has been recommended by The Legal 500 and was shortlisted as a “Rising Star in Finance” in the Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2016. Lorraine has been recognised as notable practitioner by IFLR 1000.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
CorporateFinance
LANGUAGES
Cantonese
English
Mandarin
Shanghainese
BAR ADMISSIONS
2004 – Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong (not practising)
2005 – Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (registered in Hong Kong as an English solicitor (not advising on English Law))
2012 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands)
EDUCATION
University of Hong Kong, LLB, 2001
University of Hong Kong, PCLL, 2002
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KNOWLEDGE
- ECJ Rules Public Access to Beneficial Ownership Information Invalid 01 December 2022
- Cayman Islands Hedge Fund Insights and Trends Report 2022 30 November 2022
- Partial Liquidity Transactions 30 November 2022
- Directors Personally Liable for the Fraud of a Company 29 November 2022
- Cayman Islands Year-End Obligations 28 November 2022
NEWS & DEALS
- Netherlands Office Move 01 November 2022
- Kieran Fox Joins Maples Group to Lead European Business Development 28 October 2022
- Nine Maples Group Partners Recognised in 12th Edition of Women in Business Law Expert Guide 25 October 2022
- Multi-Jurisdictional Maples Team Advise Rockpool Capital Limited on the Launch of its New Real Estate Fund 14 October 2022
- Maples Advises Baring Private Equity Asia on its Largest Fund to Date 19 September 2022