Jeanette K. Chan

The head of the China Practice Group and the Asia Communications and Technology Practice Group, Jeanette K. Chan is a partner in the Corporate Department and splits her time between the firm’s offices in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Experience

Jeanette's practice focuses on foreign direct investments into the PRC, with an emphasis on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. She has also been an active participant in the Chinese telecommunications, IT and media markets since 1994, when they first opened to foreign companies. The other industries Jeanette has been involved in include insurance, banking, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and health care.

• Ageas Insurance International N.V. in the HK$10,688 million (Eur 1,230 million) sale of its Hong Kong insurance subsidiary to JD.Capital, a China-based asset manager.
• Tencent, a leading provider of diversified technology internet services in China, in a US$1.55 billion joint investment with JD.com, a China-based online shopping services company, in Bitauto Holdings Limited, a China-based Internet content and marketing provider for the automotive industry.
• DreamWorks Animation on its ground-breaking joint venture with various Chinese partners to establish the leading China-focused family entertainment company in the PRC - Oriental DreamWorks.
• Shanghai Shendi Group Co., a new PRC state-owned enterprise, in its joint venture withThe Walt Disney Co. to build its first mainland China theme park in Shanghai. The Shanghai Disney theme park will be the first world-class and Disney branded resort encompassing Chinese and Shanghai characteristics in China. The joint venture, ten years in the making, was an extremely complicated transaction and is said to be worth in excess of US$3.5 billion.
• on the largest ever private financing for a private sector Chinese company, and the largest non-LBO private financing for a technology company globally in Alibaba's US$1.6 billion buyback of Yahoo!, representing Silver Lake and Temasek Holdings.
• The Astro Group in its merger of Celestial Television and Tiger Gate Entertainment, creating a new media company, Celestial Tiger Entertainment Limited.
• The Carlyle Group on its controlling stake in China's Mandarin Hotel Holdings Ltd.
• Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited in its disposition of its entire interest in SpeedCast Holdings Limited, the Hong Kong-based network and satellite communications service provider, to SpeedCast Acquisitions Limited.
• Motorola on the sale of its networks business to Nokia Siemens Networks in Hong Kong and China.

Jeanette spent several years with Paul, Weiss in Hong Kong, New York, Beijing and Shanghai prior to relocating to Hong Kong in 1992. She also spent almost two years based in Hong Kong as the Senior International Legal Advisor of Cable & Wireless, plc for the Asia Pacific region, assisting with their operations and business development teams in the region.

Jeanette is frequently recognized as one of the world's leading PRC law practitioners, particularly in the communications, media and technology industries, by various publications, including:

• "Leading Lawyer" in Hong Kong for private equity by IFLR1000 (2016)
• "Leading Individual" for TMT in Hong Kong and private equity/venture capital (foreign firm) in China by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific  (2016)
• "Best in M&A and Private Equity" at the Euromoney Legal Media Group  Asia Women in Business Law Awards (2015)
• "Dealmaker of the Year" at the Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards (2015)
• "Band 1" Leading Individual for private equity/buyouts & venture capital investment (international firm) and TMT (international firm) in China by Chambers Asia-Pacific  (2015)
• Leading Lawyer for Mergers & Acquisitions and Telecoms & Media in Hong Kong by Who's Who Legal  (2015)
• Asian Legal Business's Client Choice Hot 75 - one of the top 75 practitioners in Asia (2013)
• Leading Female Lawyer for TMT at the Euromoney Legal Media Group's Asia Women in Business Law Awards (2013)

Jeanette is a member of the New York Bar. She is also admitted to practice law in Canada and Hong Kong and is a non-practicing solicitor of England and Wales. Jeanette is a foreign legal consultant of the All China Lawyer's Association.

Practices

• Communications & Technology
• Corporate
• Finance
• Media & Entertainment
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity Transactions
• Asia
  

Education

• LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1986
• LL.B., University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, 1983
• B.A., University of Toronto, 1980

Languages

• Cantonese
• Mandarin
• Shanghainese

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Hong Kong
• England and Wales (non-practising)

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