Huang, Flora

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• English
• Fukienese
• Mandarin

Lawyer Overview

Flora Huang focuses her practice on assisting companies in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in accessing capital in Hong Kong, the United States, and other international stock markets through registration or in reliance on private placements. She has extensive experience in bringing companies public in Hong Kong and the United States through conventional initial public offerings or through alternative means such as sales to special purpose acquisition companies, reverse takeovers, or private investment in public equity. She also has represented issuers and underwriters in offerings of debt securities, such as high-yield bonds and convertible bonds. She also assists companies in the negotiation of sales and purchases of assets and liabilities as part of their pre-IPO financing or restructuring exercises.

Flora is experienced in working with issuers in a wide variety of industries from energy and natural resources, health care, high-technology, retail, and manufacturing to real estate. Flora has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in securities offerings. She represented the issuer in a US$1 billion high-yield bond offering by CITIC Resources Holdings Limited to finance its acquisition of an oil field in Kazakhstan. CITIC Resources became the fourth largest oil producer in China after the acquisition, and the bond offering was the largest bond offering out of Asia at the time. In addition, Flora represented the underwriters in the initial public offering on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong by Nine Dragons Holdings Limited, which was the largest offering by a private enterprise at the time.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets

Representative Cases

• CITIC issues $1 billion of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• PT Bumi subsidiary, Enercoal Resources, closes $375 million of 9.25% Guaranteed Convertible Bonds in landmark placement , (2009)
• UBS Securities India Pvt. Ltd. and IDFC Capital Ltd. complete a Regulation S qualified institutional placement by Radico Khaitan Limited
• Windrace International Company completes its business combination with 2020 Chinacap Acquirco, Inc.
• Wuyi International issues HK $801 million of Equity Shares in IPO in Hong Kong and concurrent Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Taiwan, Republic of China

Education

• Columbia University - New York
• Nat'l Taiwan U - Taipei
• U of Chicago

Address

29th Floor, Edinburgh Tower; The Landmark
15 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong

Phones

852.3189.7265 (Business Phone)

Faxes

852.2868.5871 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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