Biography

Flavia Au

Associate | Banking & Corporate | Hong Kong

Contact

Flavia Au

Associate | Banking & Corporate | Hong Kong

+852 5806 7866 flavia.au@harneys.com

Expertise

Banking & Finance

Biography

Flavia Au is an associate in the Banking & Finance team in our Hong Kong office. She advises leading international law firms, major global financial institutions and private and listed companies on a broad range of cross-border debt finance transactions, including acquisition finance, bond issuances, leveraged finance, margin lending, pre-IPO finance, property finance, take-private transactions and syndicated lending.

Prior to joining us, Flavia was an associate in the Banking & Finance team at Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman) in Hong Kong. She began her legal career as a trainee solicitor at DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office

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Experience

Corporate Lending

Acting as BVI and Cayman counsel to the finance parties on the secured and back-leverage facilities of up to US$2.56 billion for the merger and privatisation of a Nasdaq-listed leading human resource services provider.

Acting as BVI and Cayman counsel to the finance parties on the US$1.338 billion HK$ and US$ dual-tranche secured and guaranteed term loan facilities to a Hong Kong-listed leading property developer.

Acting as BVI and Cayman counsel to the lender on the US$800 million multi-tranche secured term and revolving facilities for the acquisition of a Hong Kong company holding commercial properties in Central, Hong Kong.

Acting as BVI counsel to finance parties on an initial and forward start term loan facility of up to GBP 200 million to an English property developer for the development of a mixed-use skyscraper in London which will, upon completion of construction, become one of the tallest residential developments in the United Kingdom.

Debt Capital Market

Acting as BVI counsel to Studio City Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Nasdaq-listed Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited, the leading developer and operator of casinos and entertainment resort facilities in Asia and Europe, on its US$350 million senior secured notes offering.

Acting as BVI and Cayman counsel to the sponsors on the US$200 million green senior notes offering by Yuzhou Group Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong-listed property developer with headquarters in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Debt Resctructuring

Acting as BVI counsel to RongXingdDa Development (BVI) Limited and RongChangDa Development (BVI) Limited, both subsidiaries of the Shenzhen-listed RiseSun Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., on the consent solicitation and exchange offer pursuant to a BVI court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement against RongXingDa Development (BVI) Limited.

Acting as BVI and Cayman counsel to China Aoyuan Group Limited (“China Aoyuan”), a Hong Kong-listed property developer on its US$6.2 billion debt restructuring which involves parallel and inter-conditional schemes of arrangement against China Aoyuan and its BVI subsidiary, Add Hero Holdings Limited.