Laurence Rudge

• T  +852 2901 7236 (Direct line)
• E  laurence.rudge@slaughterandmay.com

• Hong Kong 
• 47th Floor, Jardine House, One Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong

Laurence joined our London office in 1997 and was admitted as a solicitor in England in 1999 and in Hong Kong in 2003. He has been based in our Hong Kong office since 2002.

Laurence has been involved in a wide range of transactions in the corporate, capital markets and financing fields and has worked on business and share acquisitions, takeovers, loan transactions, bond issues, debt issuance programmes and general corporate advisory work.

Laurence read history at Royal Holloway University of London and is qualified in England and Wales and in Hong Kong.

His experience includes advising:

• PRADA on its US$2.14 billion IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Prudential on:
  • its proposed combination with AIA Group Limited, the related rights issue and the Hong Kong and Singapore listings
  • the sale of its agency-related insurance business and agent sales force in Taiwan
• Standard Chartered:
  • on its rights issue of new ordinary shares raising £3,258 million (net of expenses)
  • in relation to US$530 million public offering of Indian Depository Receipts and the related listings on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges of India
  • in relation to the acquisitions of Hsinchu International Bank (a listed bank in Taiwan), Korea First Bank (a listed bank in Korea) and American Express Bank
• Standard Chartered Bank on its US$500 million cornerstone investment in the initial public offering of the Agricultural Bank of China, one of the leading banks in the PRC
• Swire Pacific on the debt restructuring aspects of the proposed spin-off and listing of Swire Properties 
• Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank as the joint bookrunners on the listing of Alibaba.com Limited on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Crescent Point on its pre-IPO investment in Belle International Holdings Limited
• Morgan Stanley as sponsor on the listing in by way of introduction on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange of O2Micro International Limited
• MTR Corporation, Standard Chartered and Swire on the annual update and issue of bonds under their debt issuance programmes and Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) on the establishment and annual update of its US$1 billion debt issuance programme.