Ester W. Y. Chow

Ester Chow advises both lenders and borrowers  across the full spectrum of banking and finance matters, including:

• Complex cross-border and multijurisdictional financing
• Senior secured private structured lending with bespoken financing
• Fund finance, including capital call facilities to PE funds and SMA funds, GP lines, NAV financing
• General corporate and investment grade lending and refinancing to private structured lending
• Acquisition and leveraged financing
• Pre-IPO financing
• Margin financing
• Other event-driven financing transactions, whether secured or unsecured, syndicated, or bilateral

Advised:

• UBO, SMBC, MUFG., OCBC and CITIC Bank, as mandated lead arrangers on the structuring and provision of the term loan facilities to fund the winning bid by ESR for the acquisition of a logistics site in Kwai Chung.
• The arranger on the structuring and provision of EUR62 million offshore facilities to refinance existing onshore/offshore facilities with respect to a real property in Ho Chi Minh City.
• A Mauritius-based private credit fund on a bridge facility to fund the acquisition of coal barges in Indonesia.
• An Asia-based private credit fund on dual facilities: an acquisition facility and a pre-IPO term facility (under an onshore-offshore credit structure) to a Chinese cinema investment group in a VIE structure, with equity options, first and second lien security sharing and intercreditor arrangements, onshore security and VIE holders’ undertakings; also advised on subsequent series of amendments in light of the group pre-IPO restructurings.

• Rising Star - Banking, Hong Kong – IFLR1000
• Recommended - Banking and Finance, Hong Kong – The Legal 500 Asia Pacific

• The University of Hong Kong, PCLL
• The University of Hong Kong, LLB
• The University of Hong Kong, BSocSc, Government & Laws

• New York
• Hong Kong

• English
• Cantonese
• Mandarin

• Diversity Committee Member, Fund Finance Association
• Member, The Hong Kong Law Society 
• Member, New York Bar Association