Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has recruited a Hong Kong corporate partner from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
William Woo focuses on capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions, frequently representing Chinese companies or their financial advisers. In 2010, he acted for a seven-bank consortium of underwriters in an $8.9 billion rights offering by Bank of China Ltd. The same year Woo also advised JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. and ICBC International as underwriters on the $223 million Hong Kong initial public offering of Chinese solar cell maker Trony Solar Holdings Co. Ltd.
