Neil Hyman

• T  +852 2901 7294 (Direct line)
• E  neil.hyman@slaughterandmay.com

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

Neil has been with Slaughter and May for more than 24 years. He was resident in our London office for approximately 14 years and is now based in our Hong Kong office.

Neil is a partner in our corporate and commercial and financing department. He has a wide experience in Hong Kong, UK and international public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial work, equity and capital markets, private equity, financing and acquisition financing and restructuring transactions.

Examples of his recent transactions and other experience include advising:

• Hines, a privately owned international real estate firm, in relation to the disposal by two of its sponsored funds of their 70% controlling interest in two PRC property projects - a residential development known as California Place, Shanghai and a retail, office and hotel complex known as California Square, Shanghai - for US$353.5 million
• Diageo plc on its proposed acquisition of a controlling interest in its existing Chinese joint venture, Sichuan Chengdu Quangxing Group Co., Ltd which would trigger a US$1 billion mandatory tender offer for Sichuan Shui Jing Fang, a leading super premium Chinese white spirits company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
• Orient Overseas (International) Limited in relation to its US$2.2 billion disposal of Orient Overseas Developments Limited to CapitaLand China (RE) Holdings Co., Ltd. in a competitive auction process, involving the disposal of 7 separate developments in the PRC
• TPG Capital on its transaction to invest approximately HK$1 billion by way of subscription for H shares in Wumart Holdings
• GS Capital Partners VI Fund LP in relation to its subscription for HK$1,897 million convertible bonds and warrants in Geely Automotive Holdings Limited
• Australia & New Zealand Banking Group in relation to its acquisition of retail and commercial assets of RBS in Hong Kong
• a private equity investor in relation to their investment in a vehicle for the acquisition of a major commercial property in Shanghai, constituting the largest single asset real estate private equity deal in the PRC at that time
• Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV on the sale of its monitors and public signage products business to TPV Technology Limited under a share sale and purchase agreement
• USI Holdings Limited on its securities exchange offer for Winsor Properties Holdings Limited
• China Netcom Group on its US$1 billion acquisition of an interest in PCCW, Hong Kong's largest provider of telecommunications services
• Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Limited on its offer for China Paradise Electronics Retail Limited
• Morgan Stanley as sponsors and underwriters in relation to the introduction of TCL Communications (a leading provider of mobile handsets in China) to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• YTL Corporation Berhad on its US$300 million Zero Coupon Guaranteed Exchangeable Bond due 2012
• the bond creditors in relation to the HK$4 billion Paliburg restructuring and the HK$2.6 billion Lai Sun Development restructuring, and the subsequent HK$2 billion sale of Kowloon City Plaza and Paliburg Plaza to private equity investors
• HSBC on its US$600 million acquisition of a strategic investment in Ping An Insurance Company of China Limited
• Punch Group on its successful US$4 billion hostile public offer for the Allied Domecq pub business, its US$825 million acquisition from Bass, its US$200 million public offer for Inn Business and its US$1.2 billion sale to Texas Pacific Group
• Arsenal Football Club in relation to, among other things, the equity investment by the Granada Media
• Shell in connection with its US$2 billion global chemicals divestment programme