Asia Practice

U.S. Capital Market and Corporate Financing

Our lawyers regularly advise Asian companies in their capital raising activities in the U.S., whether through underwritten initial public offerings, registered direct offering, follow-on underwritten offerings, or PIPEs. Taking advantage of our extensive connections to investment banks, investors, private equity, and hedge funds, we act as deal-facilitators and problem-solvers in capital markets transactions involving our clients.

As issuer’s counsel, we guide our clients through every stage of the capital raising process, from conducting due diligence, to identifying and selecting other service providers, such as underwriters, placement agents, auditors, transfer agents, EDGAR printers and depository banks, to designing strategies and setting timetables, to negotiating and drafting transactional documents, to appropriate filings with various federal and state authorities. Our clients rely on our practical and experience-based understanding of federal and state securities laws and national securities exchange rules to exploit opportunities and avoid potential pitfalls that may delay or derail a critical financing transaction.

In recent years, our Asia practice attorneys have represented more than 30 Asia-based companies that have gone public in the U.S. through initial public offerings or reverse merger transactions, and successfully moved more than 20 of them to national exchanges, and have participated in financings and other transactions for these clients valued at more than $1.2 billion.