Kai Hsien has more than 16 years’ experience acting in a wide range of capital markets and corporate transactional matters in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on IPOs, secondary and follow-on offerings of equity and debt securities, takeovers, reverse takeovers, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. He also advises clients on a wide range of corporate, compliance and securities related matters. Fluent in Mandarin, he also leads our China and North Asian Practices.

He has deep experience acting for clients on different sides of transactions across his practice areas, and he can give clients insights into competing commercial interests and advise them holistically. He has acted for issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions, as well as buyers, sellers, offerors, targets, and financial advisers in private and public M&A transactions. He also advises Mandarin speaking clients in a wide range of transactional and advisory matters and works closely with the Singapore Exchange to promote Singapore as a listing venue for Chinese corporates.

He has been named as a “Rising Star” by Legal500, having been noted for his work relating to IPOs throughout the region.