Practice areas

Capital markets; Corporate & commercial; Corporate governance; M&A

Introduction

Winfield Lau is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on corporate finance, including pre-IPO financing rounds, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings of equity and debt securities, public takeovers, privatisations, mergers and acquisitions, as well as general compliance matters.

Lau has extensive experience representing corporate clients in China through their key stages of development, and has advised major investment banks in dozens of high-profile capital markets transactions, covering a variety of industries including TMT, healthcare, consumer, insurance, and property management.

In particular, Lau has participated in the USD4.75 billion placing of Ping An Insurance, being one of the largest placing of H shares to date; the USD1.0 billion IPO of WuXi AppTec; and the US$436 million IPO of Angelalign Technology.

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