Capital Markets: Debt - Asia-Pacific Region
What the team is known for
Cleary Gottlieb has a respected capital markets practice, primarily active in the markets of South Korea and Hong Kong. The firm is highly respected for its cross-border ECM practice, advising on sizeable IPOs and secondary offerings. It maintains a focus on acting for issuers, and is especially well known for advising businesses in the hi-tech and life sciences sectors.
Strengths
"Cleary are very calm under stressful circumstances and provide well-thought out advice. They put clients' interests first and are willing to go the extra mile."
"Their advice is sophisticated. Their longstanding experience makes their advice more persuasive."
Work highlights
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton acted as US and Hong Kong counsel to Goldman Sachs and CSCI, as joint sponsors, and Goldman Sachs, CSCI and CICC, as the overall coordinators, joint global coordinators, joint bookrunners and joint lead managers, in the HKD5.3 billion offering of ordinary shares and primary listing of ZJLD Group.
Cleary Gottlieb represented the Korea Development Bank in its SEC-registered dual-tranche offering of USD1 billion 4.375% notes due 2028 and USD1 billion 4.375% notes due 2033.
Notable practitioners
Key contacts include Freeman Chan and Shuang Zhao in China, while Jinduk Han and Jay Hoon Choi are key contacts for the South Korea practice.
