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    Vincent Chan

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    Hong Kong +852-2826-8688
    chanv@sullcrom.com
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    Hong Kong

    +852-2826-8688

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    chanv@sullcrom.com

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    Vincent Chan is a member of Sullivan & Cromwell's Finance & Restructuring Group based in Hong Kong.

    His practice focuses on private credit and corporate restructuring and has extensive experience in cross-border financing transactions across Europe and Asia, including fund finance, leveraged finance and special situations finance. He covers products across all capital structure tiers, including senior, super-senior, subordinated, and interest-in-kind bonds, as well as private placements and syndicated loans.

    Vincent has a deep understanding of the European debt market and has worked in London for over ten years. Prior to his time in the Asia Pacific region, he was a Vice President in the London office of a major U.S. investment bank, where he engaged in numerous fund finance and structured products transactions. Prior to that, he worked as a leveraged finance lawyer in the London office of another US law firm.

    He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

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    Experience

    Fund Finance

    • The syndicate of financial institutions in connection with a €320 million GP level facility for a Hong Kong family office
    • A European asset manager on a $350 million hybrid facility to a leading European buy-out fund*
    • An international investment bank in connection with a €270 million NAV facility for a global credit fund*
    • A US financial institution in connection with a €600 million capital call facility for a European asset manager*

    • A US financial institution in connection with a €385 million hybrid facility for a European asset manager*
    • An international investment bank in connection with a €478 million NAV facility for an US asset manager*
    • An international investment bank in connection with a €355 million hybrid facility for a European asset manager*

    Leveraged and Acquisition Finance

    • The senior and mezzanine lenders on a total HKD 685 million senior and mezzanine financing of the acquisition of hotel apartment owned by an international residential rental company backed KKR in Kowloon, Hong Kong*
    • The senior and mezzanine lenders on a total HKD 575 million senior and mezzanine financing of the acquisition of hotel apartment owned by an international residential rental company backed KKR in Sai Ying Pung, Hong Kong*
    • The mandated lead arrangers in relation to a €820 million term loan B refinancing facilities provided to the Galileo Education Group, backed by Providence Equity Partners*
    • The senior and mezzanine lenders on the cross-over credit financing of Flutter Entertainment plc in light of its merger with Stars Group Inc.*
    • Platinum Equity LLC on the financing of its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Wyndham Worldwide's European vacation rental businesses*
    • An international investment bank in connection with an up to €300 million NAV facility for a Pantheon Capital Asset Management*
    • An international investment bank in connection with a NAV €270 million continuation fund financing for Hayfin Capital Management*
    • A consortium of private equity sponsors, including Blackstone and Caryle Group, on the financing of their acquisition of a publicly listed German company in the healthcare industry* 
    • A consortium of lenders on the €899 million unitrance financing of an acquisition of major English football club backed by a US private equity fund*
    • The first lien and second lien private credit investors on the acquisition financing of a multinational group's joint venture interests in a variety of portfolio companies owned by a US private equity fund*
    • A European private equity firm on its €350 million acquisition of a portfolio of office buildings in London from a London real estate fund*
    • A HK listed company on an HKD 12.8 billion senior and mezzanine financing secured by a portfolio of commercial and industrial properties*
    • The mandated lead arrangers on the term loan and revolving credit facility in connection with CVC’s take private acquisition of an international insurance services group.
    • The mandated lead arrangers on the term loan and revolving credit facility in connection with InvestIndustrial’s acquisition of a medical device company

    Restructuring and Liability Management 

    • Thomas Cook Group plc on the refinancing and restructuring of its existing debt including multicurrency revolving credit facility and bonding facilities up to its filing for US bankruptcy protection*
    • A committee of senior lenders of five international credit institutions on the financial restructuring of Curaeos, backed by EQT, including an exchange of €345 million of existing first lien debt for new first lien and second lien facilities and equity warrants*
    • A committee of senior lenders in relation to debt-for-equity financial restructuring of FatFace, including the provision of £15 million of committed new financing*
    • An Ad hoc group of senior secured notes issued by Pizza Express on the successful completion of the group’s financial and operational restructuring*
    • A European private equity house on a complex special situations financing for its portfolio companies operating in the hospitality sector in light of COVID-19*
    • A syndicate of distressed debt funds and lenders on the €470 million debt restructuring of a European pharmaceutical company backed by KKR*

    Merger and Acquisition and Divestiture

    • Ashi on its £2billion takeover of Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime businesses owned by AB InBev
    • A Singapore's leading security services provider on the disposal of the entire issued share capital of two Hong Kong subsidiaries and one Macau subsidiary engaging in the business of providing security services from manpower to security consultation and technology*
    • A Hong Kong based family office in its investment in a mainland incorporated start up for the development a stablecoin project*
    • A Hong Kong listed company on the divestiture of a number of its key subsidiaries to a Swiss family offices* 
    • Advised a leading listed property developer on a strategic sale of a portfolio of HKD67.3 billion worth of assets comprising real estate loans and commercial properties to asset management firms*

    *Denotes representations undertaken prior to joining S&C.

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    Credentials

    Education

    • BPP University Law School, Legal Practice Course, 2015
    • The London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.M., 2014
    • Durham University, LL.B., 2013

    Bar Admissions

    • England and Wales
    • New York

    Languages

    • Chinese (Cantonese)
    • Chinese (Mandarin)
    • English

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