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  • Sophia CHEN

    Non-equity Partner / Shanghai

  • Tel +86-21-6061-3031

    Email chenjian@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Financing, Financial Products & Trusts, Private Equity & Investment Funds

  • Industries

    Real Estate, Banking & Financial Services

CV

Sophia CHEN

Sophia Chen is a non-equity partner at Zhonglun’s financing team. So far, she has gathered over ten years’ professional experience as a lawyer.
Her practice areas include banking and finance, cross-border M&A and fund business. Her practice in banking and finance involves syndication loans, acquisition financing, project financing, disposal of NPL, international trade financing, and advice on the creation and enforcement of security for various financial transactions, and she has provided services for banks and other financial institutions, as well as industry-leading investment funds for series of domestic and overseas financing projects. She has accumulated rich experience in financing transactions across industries of real estate, hotels, infrastructure, telecommunications, energy, minerals, TMT, data center, etc.

Representative Matters

  • Represented Blackstone Group on the financing in relation to its multiple acquisition projects of onshore commercial properties and logistics warehouses

  • Represented Tishman Speyer on the projects of onshore equity acquisition transactions and development and construction loans

  • Represented an offshore joint venture of New Ease on the offshore mezz loan for re-financing its offshore acquisition project

  • Represented Bizlink Holding Inc. on the Euro offshore loans granted by the syndicate consisting of Bank SinoPac, CTBC Bank Co., Ltd., MEGA International Commercial Bank Co. Ltd. and Taishin International Bank Co., Ltd. for the acquisition of LEONI Industrial Solutions business group from LEONI AG (Xetra code: LEO)

  • Represented Ascendent Capital Partners on the cross-border acquisition loans in an amount of nearly EUR 100 million provided by China Merchants Bank for the acquisition of Alutrim Group’s subsidiaries in Germany, Hongkong and mainland China

  • Represented the syndicate consisted of Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and HSBC on a cross-border facility granted to an offshore affiliate jointly controlled by Provident Capital and Saratoga Group for the purpose of funding the onshore telecommunication tower business

  • Represented J.P. Morgan Asset Management and New Ease on two cross-border syndicated loans in an aggregate amount of several billion RMB borrowed from the two syndicates for the acquisition of the onshore portfolio consisting of ten logistics assets and the re-financing of the aforesaid acquisition loan

  • Represented International Finance Corporation on the loans granted to onshore and offshore affiliates of Minsheng Education Group (Stock Code: HK 01569) for acquisition of new schools and decoration and upgrades projects

  • Represented Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and United Overseas Bank as mandated lead arrangers on the syndicated loan granted to GDS Group for its data centers in Shanghai Free Trade Zone

  • Represented the syndicate consisting of J.P. Morgan Securities as arranger and HSBC as agent on the financing granted to Bain Capital for the acquisition of non-performing asset package

  • Represented Hines on the syndicated loan of several billion RMB granted by the syndicate consisting of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and Agricultural Bank of China to the financing and re-financing of the construction and development of One Museum Palace project in Shanghai

  • Represented the onshore and offshore syndicates arranged by HSBC and United Overseas Bank on the onshore-offshore linked financing in an aggregate amount of several billion RMB for re-financing of the acquisition loan and financing of development and construction project of Florentia Village in Shanghai

  • Represented the onshore and offshore syndicates arranged by Standard Chartered Bank on the onshore-offshore linked financing in an aggregate amount of several billion RMB granted to PAG for the acquisition project of Ciro’s Plaza

  • Represented OCBC Bank on the onshore-offshore linked financing in an aggregated amount of several hundred million RMB granted to Quad Real Asia for the acquisition of a portfolio consisting of three logistic assets from LaSalle Investment

  • Represented an offshore syndicate jointly arranged by Standard Chartered Bank and Australia and New Zealand Bank on the cross-border security matter under the refinancing facility of USD 550 million granted to Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. (Stock Code: SH 600196, HK 02196)

  • Represented BIOSTIME (Stock Code: HK 01112) on the refinancing for the acquisition of major shares in Swisse granted by the syndicate consisting of Goldman Sachs (as arranging bank) and HSBC (as agent bank); meanwhile, represented BIOSTIME on the issue of offshore senior notes by Biostime International Holdings Ltd., a listed subsidiary of BIOSTIME; Goldman Sachs acted as the initial purchaser of the aforesaid senior notes

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    Qualified as a registered PRC lawyer

  • Education

    LL.B., East China University of Political Science and Law, 2010

  • Professional Experience

    Non-equity Partner, Zhonglun Law Firm
    Associate Dacheng Law Firm

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English