About Tonny

Tonny Yu focuses his practice on initial public offerings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Hong Kong listing rules and securities regulations compliance advisory work. 

Prior to joining Cooley, Tonny worked at the Hong Kong office of another leading US law firm. 

Tonny is a native Mandarin speaker and is fluent in English and Cantonese.

Representative matters:

Equity offerings

  • Represented Antengene Corporation Limited in connection with its HK$2.79 billion Hong Kong IPO and global offering
  • Represented a leading digital medical service platform in China in connection with its proposed Hong Kong IPO with weighted voting rights structure
  • Represented Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited in connection with its US$510 million IPO and Nasdaq listing

Debt offerings

  • Represented CNOOC Limited on its US$1.5 billion SEC-registered guaranteed notes offering
  • Represented the initial purchasers in connection with the US$2 billion debut Rule 144A/Regulation S notes offering by Meituan
  • Represented the initial purchasers in connection with the Regulation S high-yield notes offerings by China Evergrande Group, Zhenro Properties Group Limited, China South City Holdings Limited and ENN Clean Energy International Investment Limited

Compliance

  • Represented CNOOC Limited (883.HK), Antengene Corporation Limited (6996.HK), Haitong Unitrust International Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (1905.HK) and Dalian Port (PDA) Company Limited (now Liaoning Port Co., Ltd.) (2880.HK) on their post-listing compliance matters

Mergers & acquisitions

  • Represented China Yongda Automobiles Services Holdings Limited in connection with its RMB830 million acquisition of Inchcape Asia Pacific Limited

Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PCLL, 2016

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
JD, 2015

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
BBA, 2012, International Shipping and Transport Logistics