HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proskauer has expanded its global transactional and corporate practice with the additions of Partner Gene Buttrill and Senior Counsel Jay C.S. Tai in Hong Kong.
Mr. Buttrill has significant experience leading equity and debt capital markets transactions in Asia, with a focus on taking China-based companies public in the United States and Hong Kong, in addition to representing investment banks in a wide range of corporate finance transactions throughout the region.
Mr. Tai’s practice focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and complex corporate and commercial transactions. He has extensive experience representing funds, investment banks and strategic investors in their activities throughout Asia, with a particular focus on China.
“Gene and Jay add tremendous firepower and deep experience to our Asian platform, allowing us to continue our mission of providing multi-dimensional services that connect our Asian clients with capital markets throughout the rest of the world, and global transactional support and commercial advice to companies from around the world as they conduct business and access markets throughout the continent,” said Yuval Tal, Partner and head of Proskauer’s Hong Kong office.
According to Ronald R. Papa, Partner and co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department, the growth of the firm’s Hong Kong platform is a reflection of the ever-increasing, multinational client demand for the firm’s full portfolio of corporate services, and Proskauer’s ability to address client needs with the market’s leading talent.
“Our Capital Markets Group has been experiencing unprecedented levels of activity, and Gene brings talent, stature and experience that will help to propel our continued expansion in Asia and throughout the world,” he said. “Likewise, as our overall transactional practice continues to grow, our Hong Kong office is a vital component of our multinational services to clients in a multitude of sectors.”
Mr. Buttrill, who is fluent in Mandarin, has been instrumental in public offerings by numerous China-based companies on the Nasdaq and NYSE. He also has significant transactional experience, including the largest high-yield bond offering from Asia, and has done extensive work with Chinese issuers in Hong Kong listings, high-yield debt offerings, convertible bond offerings, global equity offerings, venture capital investments, and share and asset acquisitions. Mr. Buttrill received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar, attended the Johns Hopkins University S.A.I.S. program at Nanjing University, and received his B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Mr. Tai is also a Consultant at Chapman & Co., a Hong Kong law firm registered with The Law Society of Hong Kong that practices law in Hong Kong in association with Proskauer Rose LLP. Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, he received his LL.B. from King’s College London. He joins the firm from Ropes & Gray. He has advised clients on deals involving a broad range of industries, including real estate, manufacturing, health care, education, telecommunications and media, and jurisdictions in Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia.
Mr. Buttrill and Mr. Tai are the latest additions to Proskauer’s Corporate Department, which in recent months has also welcomed Justin Breen (Capital Markets, Finance), Ron D. Franklin (Capital Markets, Finance), and Gregory D. Ruback (Finance).
Proskauer’s Corporate Department consists of more than 240 lawyers worldwide counseling clients in the full range of sophisticated financial transactions and daily business and regulatory matters. The group’s core practice areas include finance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, fund formation, and bankruptcy and restructuring.
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