Our Team

Hemanth Mirpuri

Hemanth has trained with and worked for Magic Circle and American firms in London and Hong Kong. He has represented a wide variety of clients ranging from large multinationals to small family businesses acquiring and disposing of assets.  A small business owner himself, he understands the pressures that many business owners face in terms of time and cost.

Qualifications:

  • Solicitor in England & Wales

  • Solicitor in Hong Kong SAR

Recent Experience:

  • Mandate for corporate and commercial work for the LycaGroup, including disposals of various companies across the globe and restructuring multiple businesses.

  • High-value residential and commercial property re-financings;

  • Disposal of a dark fibre asset in the DRC on behalf of an African telco company.

  • Philips's disposal of its global TV manufacturing business to TPV

Publications

  • “Direction of Foreign Investment is Key to a New Phase of Growth” – Financial Times

James Fairley

Consultant

James is a versatile, experienced and motivated lawyer, with a strong transactional and advisory background in M&A, corporate and equity capital markets, as well as more recent experience in fintech and commercial matters. He has worked in a variety of firms ranging from large NY firms as well as providing more boutique advice.

Qualifications:

  • Solicitor in England & Wales

Recent Experience:

  • negotiating licensing agreements, service agreements, consulting agreements, terms and conditions, NDAs and heads of terms, GDPR and employment matters, establishing new business units overseas, and acquisitions and reorganisations.

Gee Hou Tng

Consultant

Geehou advises on the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of bank financing and restructuring, with a focus on cross-border acquisition financing, leveraged financing and non-contentious debt restructuring.

He have advised lenders and borrowers on high-profile and landmark leveraged finance and banking transactions. Having been previously based in Hong Kong and Greater China respectively, I am also comfortable working in a Mandarin business environment and conducting business and negotiations in Mandarin.

Qualifications:

  • Solicitor in England & Wales

  • Solicitor in Hong Kong SAR

  • Solicitor in Singapore

Recent Experience:

  • Saudi Arabia's Reza Group and Qatar’s Al-mana Group on a secured financing by CIMB for the acquisition of the franchise rights for McDonald's 390 restaurants in Singapore and Malaysia. The transfer of the McDonald's business to a developmental license model in Singapore and Malaysia was the first to be implemented in Asia.

  • China Development Bank Corporation in its financing of Perilya Canada Limited's US$183 million acquisition of GlobeStar Mining Corporation.

  • Gaw Capital Partners on a US$480 million secured syndicated loan to finance the acquisition by the consortium advised by Gaw Capital Partners of InterContinental Hong Kong from the InterContinental Hotels Group. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and United Overseas Bank Limited were the mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

  • Pacific Century Premium Developments in the acquisition of a prime housing site in Hong Kong’s central district.