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  • Yuen-Yee Cho

    Partner
    Sydney
    T: +61 2 9296 2343
    M: +61 407 069 310
 

 Professional Biography

 

  • Yuen-Yee Cho is a Partner in the Banking and Finance team in the Sydney office of King & Wood Mallesons. She specialises in acquisition financings, project and infrastructure finance and general corporate finance. Yuen-Yee is also a qualified English lawyer.

    Yuen-Yee's 2011 transactions include advising Bradken Ltd in establishing a global platform for its debt facilities, the Banks financing Affinity Equity Partners’ acquisition of Primo Smallgoods, Paine & Partners on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Costa Group, and Sydney Airport and Broadcast Australia on major bank debt refinancings.

    Yuen-Yee has been ranked a leading practitioner in Banking & Finance/Acquisition Finance in Chambers' Global Guide to the Legal Profession 2011, Best Lawyers in Australia 2008-11, PLC Which Lawyer, Asian Legal Business's Legal Who's Who, Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers 2011 and the International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers 2011.

    Chambers Global Guide 2009 said Yuen-Yee "...is excellent to deal with - she is knowledgeable and proficient in every way". She is described as having "...a fantastic reputation in the marketplace, and clients assert that ‘it is always good to have her on your side of the transaction'. She impresses clients with her wonderful technical skills, and is also ‘a delightful individual to deal with'..."
 

 Experience

 
  • 1991: Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Hons I), University of Sydney
  • 1992 - 1994: Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
  • 1994 - 1995: Bachelor of Civil Law (Hons I), Oxford University
  • 1995 - 1997: Solicitor, Allen & Overy, London
  • 1998 - 2000: Senior Associate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
  • 2001 - present: Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney

  • Yuen-Yee lectures in undergraduate and postgraduate finance law at the University of New South Wales and has written chapters for the Australian Finance Law textbook (6th edn). She was a speaker at the International Bar Association / Law Council of Australia private equity conference in April 2008 and at the IBA Private Equity Symposium in London in December 2011.
 

 Recent Matters

 
  • LBOs / MBOs / other acquisition financings
  • Advised the banks financing Affinity Equity Partners' acquisition of Primo Smallgoods (2011)
  • Advised Paine & Partners on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Costa Group (2011)
  • Advised KKR on its bid for MYOB (2011)
  • Advised the banks providing acquisition financing for Transfield Services' acquisition of Easternwell Group (2010)
  • Advised the banks providing acquisition financing for Origin Energy's acquisition of NSW electricity assets (2010)
  • Advised a bank group financing a private equity bid for Heathscope (2010)
  • Advised CHAMP on its acquisition of ATF and its bid for Loscam (2010)
  • Advised the banks on the $4.2bn financing of the PBL Media transaction (2007) and on the restructure of the facilities (2008)
  • Advised KKR on the $1.8 billion leveraged buyout financing of BIS Cleanaway (2006) and the subsequent Cleanaway exit (2007)
  • Project and infrastructure finance
  • Bradken Ltd - its original IPO financing in 2004 and various refinancings since then, including establishment of a new global platform for its debt facilities in 2011
  • Sydney Airport - refinancing transactions including a debut US$500m r144A issue in 2010 (2004-10)
  • Broadcast Australia - $825m credit-wrapped note and bank facilities and various refinancings thereafter including a debut USPP in 2010 (2002-10)
  • Lead finance partner for the borrowers in the refinancing of United Energy, Multinet and Alinta Networks and other debt aspects of the $4bn Shearwater transaction (2003)
  • WestLink Motorway consortium - $2.3bn Western Sydney Orbital tollroad project (2003)
 

 Professional Memberships

 
  • Asia-Pacific Loan Market Association (Australia Branch) Documentation Committee
  • Former Board Member, Banking & Financial Services Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
  • Law Society of NSW
  • Law Society, England & Wales