Expertise
May is a Managing Associate in the Finance practice. She has extensive experience in advising financial institutions, private credit funds, bank syndicates and companies on a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including general corporate finance, acquisition and leveraged finance as well as project and infrastructure finance matters.
May has also had the benefit of a corporate secondment in New York and a client secondment at a PRC state-owned bank in Hong Kong, each with previous firms. She is admitted to practice as a solicitor in both England and Wales, and Hong Kong.
- Experience
- Advising an infrastructure investment fund as borrower in respect of a new money financing to refinance existing debt and to maintain its railway projects, with security over its receivables generated from its existing project revenue streams.
- Advising an Australian oil and gas company as borrower in respect of a bridge facility and a reserves-based lending facility with a bank syndicate (and its subsequent refinancing).
- Advising Lloyds Bank plc as senior lender in respect of a new money mezzanine financing to a company providing coworking office spaces to partially repay the senior debt.
- Advising a Korean fund manager on its debt and equity investments into a UK green generating power station.
- Advising an Asian fund providing senior secured debt facilities to high-net-worth individuals secured against real estate assets in Vancouver and Hong Kong with real estate and holdco security structured to comply with British Columbia laws (and its subsequent refinancing).
- Year qualified
- June 2023 – Solicitor – England and Wales
- January 2016 – Solicitor – Hong Kong
- Languages
- English – native
- Mandarin – excellent command
- Cantonese – excellent command
- Korean – good command
- Recognition
- Silver Award for Professional Volunteer Service Accreditation Recognition Programme 2019 – 2020 awarded by The Hong Kong Council of Volunteering, Agency for Volunteer and The Law Society of Hong Kong – April 2021.
- Special Award of the 2018 – 2020 Recognition Scheme for Provision of Pro Bono Legal Services awarded by The Chief Secretary of Hong Kong – February 2021.
- Silver Award for 2020 Pro Bono and Community Work Recognition Programme awarded by The Law Society of Hong Kong – December 2020.
- Distinguished Full Scholarship awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong – September 2012.
- Education
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (2013)
- BPP Law School, London – Bar Vocational Course (2010)
- Queen Mary, University of London – Law LLB (2009)
- Professional memberships
- The Law Society of England and Wales
- The Law Society of Hong Kong