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Mabel Lui

Withers

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Hong Kong
Singapore
England & Wales
New York
Victoria
Practice Areas:
Capital markets : Equity
Investment funds
Private equity
M&A
Industry Sectors:
Consumer goods and services
Financial services
Insurance
Investment management
Food and beverage
Real estate
Gaming
Languages:
English
Cantonese
Biography

Mabel Lui is a multi-award lawyer with more than 39 years of commercial and transactional experience in Hong Kong and China (including mergers, acquisitions, and investments). She notably advised in the first Sino-foreign joint venture in China and in one of the first H-share issues by Hong Kong/New York dually-listed Chinese corporations. Her experience expands to real estate, corporate finance, trust and estate, and private wealth management work.

Recent transactional highlights

• Represented Hong Kong's largest food & beverage corporation and restaurant chain on the acquisition of a franchisee of a COVA business in Hong Kong;

• Represented one of America’s oldest fashion retailers in the asset purchase relating to the sale and distribution of its own branded products across six Asian countries; and establishment of a joint venture with Asia’s premier fashion retail and brand management group;

• Represented SOCAM Development Limited in the RMB1.323 billion-sale of the Four Seasons Hotel and Four Seasons Place in Shanghai to B.M. Holding Group.

Practice areas

• Capital markets: Equity

• Investment funds

• M&A

• Private equity

• Real estate finance

Sector specialisations

• Consumer goods and services

• Financial services

• Food and beverage

• Gaming

• Insurance

• Real estate

Bar admissions

New York

Singapore

Victoria, Australia

Hong Kong

England & Wales

Association memberships

Justice of the Peace of Hong Kong

China-appointed Attesting Officer

Notary Public

Government-appointed member of the Administrative Appeals Board, the Disciplinary Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Deposit Protection Appeals Tribunal

Academic qualifications

LLB, University of Hong Kong (1974)

PCLL, University of Hong Kong (1975) 

LLM, University of Hong Kong (1990)

Address:
Hong Kong