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Kate Li kwong wing

Associate

Email

Tel

+230 203 4329

Address

9th Floor
 Medine Mews
 La Chaussée Street
 Port Louis
 Mauritius

 

profile

Kate Li is an associate at Appleby and a member of the Corporate & Commercial department. She practises in the area of corporate and commercial law and her practice includes advising on private and public offerings, merger and acquisition matters, the structuring and capitalisation of private holding and operating companies in Mauritius.

She joined Appleby in September 2008 as a trainee associate. Prior to joining Appleby Kate undertook summer internships at Bank of America Securities (San Francisco) and HSBC (Mauritius).

Kate has worked on a number of transactions for financial institutions, private equity and hedge fund clients, including Deutsche Bank AG, UBS, Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Group, AIG Group, Credit Suisse, Temasek Citigroup, Standard Chartered Bank, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Citadel Investment and CapitaLand.

She is a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, and is also an associate member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Kate speaks fluent English and French, and is proficient in Mandarin.

expertise

Examples of recent transactions on which Kate has worked include advising:

  • In the majority acquisition of an Indian entity that operates a river bridge in Calcutta, India – Second Vivekanada Bridge Tollway Company Private Limited, India’s largest Build Operate Transfer (BOT) bridge, by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure for an aggregate purchase price of INR3,273 million and capital contributions to fund a settlement payment of INR250 million
  • The consortium led by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, including Norwest Venture Partners, General Atlantic LLC, Goldman Sachs Investment Management and Everstone Capital, in connection with the acquisition of a 44% stake in power generation and engineering services firm Asian Genco for US$425 million, the biggest private equity transaction in India in almost two years. The deal is also the biggest private equity transaction in the country’s power sector and the first one of over US$300 million since 2008. The deal has won the ‘Private Equity Deal of the Year’ in International Financial Law Review’s (IFLR)/Asialaw India Awards) 2010
  • O3b Networks on its US$1.2 billion financing, backed by world-class financial and operational support from SES, HSBC, LibertyGlobal, Development Bank of South Africa, Sofina, Satya Capital, Google, Northbridge Venture Partners and Allen & Company, to create a global internet backbone to service several billion consumers, businesses and other organisations in more than 150 countries.  O3b is building a next-generation network that combines the reach of satellite with the speed of fibre and these ground-breaking services will enable emerging market telecommunication companies and ISPs in Africa to make the internet a truly global and universal experience

education

Mount Holyoke College (USA)
BPP Law School, London (England)