朱文红在跨境交易方面经验丰富,其中不乏备受瞩目、史无前例的获奖交易。凭借她在华尔街排名最前列律所逾20年的执业经验,她为美中两国最大的公司及最复杂的交易提供法律服务。她的执业专注于资本市场、并购及银行融资三个领域。
在资本市场领域,她为多个行业的企业及投行提供债券与股份发行的法律服务,如在纽约交易所、纳斯达克及香港联交所挂牌的项目。她经办的市场瞩目的项目包括中国农业银行、建设银行及国电科环数十亿美元的首次公开发行;为中化集团、海航及高收益债券发行人的多家公司提供大型或复杂的债券发行服务(如中期票据项目设立、初次高收益债券发行及债券要约收购)。
在并购领域,朱文红牵头多单境内外的先锋交易,如股权与资产的收购、私有或上市公司的收购、对抗或友好型收购及私募交易。她牵头的知名项目包括中粮集团多家上市公司的出售及收购、中化拟对20多个司法管辖区的上市公司的收购、中国银行拟对境外复杂监管环境下金融机构的收购、五矿集团与中冶的战略重组,以及多家知名私募基金的投资。
作为银监会“外国法律专家”,朱文红的银行贷款业务涵盖多种抵押类及银团贷款交易,致力于杠杆融资。她负责的大型贷款项目如中信银行向Hillhouse主导的实体提供并购贷款,用于百丽国际私有化;国开行向多个“一带一路”国家借款人提供贷款;中信银行向海航提供贷款,以收购卡尔森酒店集团;广发投资向某私募基金牵头的财团提供融资,以收购经营于多个司法管辖区的生物技术公司;摩根大通银行为多家美国公司的收购提供融资;花旗银行通过复杂机制提供贷款。
朱文红的主要客户包括中粮集团、中化集团、国开行、建设银行、五矿集团、海航集团、农业银行、中信银行、邮储银行、中国银行、中化化肥、金茂地产、国新国际、国电集团、三峡财务、中国铝业、上海铁路、重庆机电、广深铁路、PPG、IBM、高盛、摩根士丹利、花旗、摩根大通、瑞银及瑞信。
朱文红获邀至多个专业会议上发言;其观点被《财经》《财新》《国际金融法律评论》及《亚洲金融》等杂志引用。她是斯坦福大学的优秀法学博士学位毕业生;也是北京航空航天大学行政管理学位的优秀毕业生,多次荣膺北京市三好学生的荣誉。
Rose Zhu has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, some of which are high-profile, ground-breaking transactions. Leveraging on her 20-plus years of experience with the world’s highest-ranking Wall Street practice, she advises the largest companies on the most complex deals in the US and China.
Zhu’s practice concentrates on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and financings.
(1) Within capital markets, she has led debt and equity offerings for a wide range of industries, and on markets including the NYSE, Nasdaq and HKSE. Her marquee deals include the multibillion-dollar IPOs of Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Guodian Technology; and large-scale or complicated debt offerings for various companies at Sinochem, HNA and high-yield issuers (including MTN programme establishments, greenfield high-yield offerings and debt tender offers), acting for issuers or bulge-bracket investment banks.
(2) For M&A, Zhu has led outbound and inbound transactions including stock and asset, private and public, and friendly and hostile transactions. Her high-profile transactions include: transactions for listed companies at COFCO; proposed acquisitions for Sinochem of listed targets with reach in more than 20 jurisdictions; Bank of China’s proposed transactions over financial institutions with complex regulatory landscapes; Minmetals’ strategic restructuring with Metallurgical Group; and investments by prominent PE shops.
(3) An expert on the foreign legal experts panel of China Banking Regulatory Commission, her bank financing experience includes a variety of secured and syndicated lending transactions, with a focus on leveraged financings. Her notable deals include: CITIC Bank’s financing to a Hillhouse-led group for its taking-private transaction of Belle International; China Development Bank’s financings to borrowers in several Belt and Road countries; CITIC Bank’s financings to HNA Tourism for its acquisition of Carlson Hotels; GF Investment’s financing to a PE-led consortium for its acquisition of a biotech company in multiple jurisdictions; Chase’s financings to US companies for their acquisitions; and Citibank’s financings with complex lending arrangements.
Zhu’s major clients include COFCO, Sinochem, China Development Bank, China Construction Bank, Minmetals, HNA, Agricultural Bank of China, CITIC Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China, Bank of China, Sinofert, Jinmao, CNIC, Guodian Group, Three Gorges, Chalco, Shanghai Railway, Chongqing Machinery, Guangshen Railways, PPG, IBM, Lucent, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JPMorgan, UBS and Credit Suisse.
Zhu is a speaker at various professional conferences, and was quoted by Caijin, Caixin, IFLR and FinanceAsia. She graduated with honours, with a JD degree from Stanford Law School, among others. |