Practice areas

M&A; Capital markets; Restructuring & insolvency; Private equity, venture capital & funds

Introduction

Rossana Chu is managing partner of LC Lawyers. With more than 22 years of legal experience and deep knowledge and skills, she represents multinational and Chinese corporations, financial institutions, funds, families and individuals in their domestic and overseas financial and commercial legal matters.

Chu is an accolade-winning practitioner. She has been named as a Recommended Attorney by Global Law Experts (GLE) as its only recommended M&A law representative in Hong Kong (2021-2022); recognised by Asialaw Client Service Excellence as the highest rated lawyer to work with in capital markets in Hong Kong (2021); recognised as one of the A-List – China’s Elite 100 Lawyers (Foreign Firms) by China Business Law Journal (2020); named as a Highly Regarded Leading Lawyer in capital markets: equity, M&A, private equity and restructuring and insolvency (2021-2022) and a Highly Regarded Leading Lawyer in financial and corporate law (2015-2020) by IFLR1000; named as the winner in capital markets for Hong Kong at the Client Choice Awards (2019) by Lexology and International Law Office; and shortlisted for restructuring and insolvency (2019) by Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards.

Chu was named Commended External Counsel of the Year 2017 by the In-House Community. As the lead partner in a large-scale M&A transaction, she led her team in winning Takeover Deal of the Year 2016 from Lawyer Monthly. She was also recognised as an Up and Coming practitioner in the area of private equity: buyouts (international firms) in China by Chambers Asia-Pacific (2008-2013).

Chu is an arbitrator of China Guangzhou Arbitration Commission. She is also an affiliate member of association of the Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom. Chu has been interviewed by Legal500 (2020), ALB Managing Partner Roundtable Feature (2019, 2020), ALB Journalist (2020), ALB M&A Rankings Awards (2021), China Business Law Journal’s Chinese Outbound Investment Report (2021) and Market Pulse (2021). She contributed to the research in different legal aspects by writing specialised articles, and she was named by Lexology as a legal influencer in Q1 and Q2 of 2021.

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