Areas of Expertise
Lorraine is a partner of the Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Hong Kong office. Her practice covers a broad range of corporate finance transactions involving Cayman Islands and BVI entities, including mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings, reorganisations, and pre-IPO financings. Lorraine also has extensive experience in fund finance, acquisition and leveraged financing, debt capital markets, and private equity investments.
With over 20 years of experience in private practice, Lorraine has built an extensive track record advising investment funds, financial institutions, and publicly listed and private companies.
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 has been ranked as highly-regarded banking and finance lawyer by IFLR1000.
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
Cantonese
English
Mandarin
Shanghainese