Derrick Lau
Senior AssociateHong Kong
Email derrick.lau@hoganlovells.com
Phone +852 2840 5069
Fax +852 2219 0222
LanguagesEnglish, Cantonese
Practice groupFinance
Derrick 'works well under tight deadlines'
Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 Guide
Derrick focuses his practice on all areas of debt financing with a particular emphasis on fund financing and acquisition financing.
Based in Hong Kong with extensive experience working in the London office of Hogan Lovells, he regularly acts for funds and lenders on a wide range of financing products; both at the fund level involving bridge financing, NAV/asset backed facilities and hybrid facilities, and also on the asset level involving non-recourse lending or event driven lending.
Derrick has a good understanding of the commercial realities of debt financing transactions and has worked as an in-house legal counsel at a major investment bank. He has a proven track record of delivering results to his clients and was mentioned by one client in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 Guide as being able to "work well under tight deadlines".
Education and admissions
Education
B.Com (Finance), University of Sydney
LLB (Hons), University of Sydney
PCLL (Distinction), University of Hong Kong
Bar admissions and qualifications
Hong Kong
New South Wales, Australia
Representative experience
Advising the unitranche and super senior lenders on the financing of Montagu Private Equity's acquisition of Kodak's global Flexographic Packaging Division.
Advising CVC Credit Partners on the financing of Trimb Healthcare's acquisition of BioClin BV, a European pharmaceutical company sponsored by Avista Capital.
Advising Trilantic Europe on the financing of its acquisition of talent management company, James Grant Group (which has been renamed YM&U).
Advising Guggenheim Investments on the financing of bolt-on acquisitions by Causeway, a provider of software services for the construction sector in the UK.
Advising the syndicate of lenders on the financing of the construction of a number of data centres by a leading UK data centre provider.
Advising the lenders on the provision of a subscription facility to Glendower Secondary Opportunities Fund IV, the spin out of the Deutsche Bank Secondary Opportunities Fund.
Advising the lenders in relation to the provision of numerous fund financing products to various Hayfin Capital funds.
Advising CIMB Bank Berhad, HSBC, ANZ and National Australia Bank in relation to the US$125m secured financing of SeekAsia Limited's acquisition of the JobStreet group of companies.
Advising a syndicate of banks on the provision of term and revolving facilities to Tencent Asset Management Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Limited.
