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Robert Chu is resident in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Melbourne office; he had formerly headed the Firm’s Beijing office. Mr. Chu was born in Taipei and is a native Mandarin speaker. He joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 1999 after teaching contracts and international law at Rutgers Law School. He graduated from MIT (S.B. and S.M. in Electrical Engineering) and Harvard Law School (J.D.).

Having been resident in S&C’s New York, Hong Kong, Beijing and Melbourne offices, Mr. Chu has worked on a wide range of high-profile mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings involving companies in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and is recognized as a Leading Lawyer by Asia Law & Practice, as one of the Leaders in Their Field in Corporate/M&A and Private Equity by Chambers Asia and as a recommended lawyer for Corporate/M&A in Chambers Global. Highlights of his work include: 

Mergers & Acquisitions (Selected)

• China Investment Corporation on its transactions globally;
• Thomson S.A. on the combination of the global television businesses of Thomson and TCL to create the world's largest television producer;
• Dubai Ports on its acquisition of CSX World Terminals, which involved strategic assets in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia, the Americas, Europe and elsewhere around the world;
• Dubai Ports on its acquisition of 39.1% of Asia Container Terminals Holdings;
• Bank of China Limited on the strategic investments by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Temasek Holdings, UBS AG and the Asian Development Bank;
• The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Allianz AG and American Express Company on their strategic investments in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China;
• Jilin Chemical Industrial Company Limited, a company tri-listed on the New York, Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock exchanges, on its Rule 13e-3 going-private transaction involving a tender offer by PetroChina Company Limited;
• R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. on its acquisition of Asia Printers Group;
• Ek Chor China Motorcycle Co., Ltd. on its Rule 13e-3 going-private transaction through a Bermuda scheme of arrangement; and
• InBev in connection with Bier Securities plc’s acquisition of 45% of Oriental Brewery, financed through the issuance of secured floating rate notes and the borrowed of secured loans.

Securities Offerings and Other Financings (Selected)

• Bank of China Limited on its initial public offering, which involved a public offering and listing in Hong Kong and a Rule 144A offering in the United States;
• the underwriters on the initial public offering and Nasdaq listing of Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd.;
• China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd. on its initial public offering and New York Stock Exchange listing;
• KongZhong Corporation on its initial public offering and Nasdaq listing;
• China Telecom on its initial public offering and NYSE listing; and
• Sohu.com on its initial public offering and Nasdaq listing.