Practice Experience
Xin Wang is a counsel with White & Case's Beijing office. She has experience in bank finance, project and infrastructure finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and in advising institutional investors in their acquisitions of non-performing loans and distressed assets. She has also been involved in numerous foreign direct investment transactions.
Xin's experience includes representing:
- China Development Bank Corporation in its financing of Perilya Canada Limited's US$183 million acquisition of GlobeStar Mining Corporation. Perilya Canada funded the acquisition through the financing package of up to US$100 million and existing cash resources. Perilya Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Australia-based Perilya Limited. Perilya Limited is 52 percent owned by Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet Co. Ltd, the fourth-largest zinc smelter in China. GlobeStar, based in Ontario, Canada and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, operates the Cerro de Maimón mine in the Dominican Republic.
- China Development Bank Corporation on two loans, together valued at over US$20 billion, to Venezuela's Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Venezuela (BANDES). The financing is one of the largest that CDB has extended to any one country. It won "Deal of the Year 2010" from Asian-Counsel magazine and was nominated for "Debt Market Deal of the Year" at the ALB China Law Awards 2011.
- China Development Bank Corporation in a US$1 billion loan to A. P. MØLLER – MÆRSK A/S, one of the world's largest shipping companies, to finance it or any of its affiliates' procurement of ship, equipment and other goods and services from the People's Republic of China.
- China Development Bank Corporation in the financing of bitumen tankers, car carriers, dry cargo vessels and anchor handling vessels by various subsidiaries of Vroon Group B.V.
- China Development Bank Corporation in the US$86 million financing of pre-delivery payments and the US$272 million long term facility for AerCap in relation to four new Airbus A330 aircraft with deliveries scheduled in 2010 and 2011. This deal was awarded "European Deal of the Year 2009" by Airfinance Journal.
- Hongyanhe Nuclear Limited Company as borrower in a loan arranged by Bank of China and ICBC for the procurement and construction of a nuclear power station in Hongyanhe, Liaoning Province. The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant is the first nuclear power plant in the northeast China.
- China Development Bank Corporation , as lead arranger, in its RMB 4 billion syndicated financing to MTR Corporation (Shenzhen) Limited for the construction of a subway line in Shenzhen.
- China Development Bank Corporation in multiple corporate and limited recourse financings of telecommunications projects throughout the world, including India, Poland, Philippines, Bangladesh, Congo Brazzaville, Uganda, Pakistan and Russia.
- China Development Bank Corporation in its €260 million loan to the Government of the Republic of Belarus, acting by and through the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus, to finance the construction of a gas-fired power plant in the Republic of Belarus.
- China Development Bank and Bank of China as joint borrowers of a credit facility from Société Générale, HSBC France and Calyon as co-lenders and co-arrangers for the construction of nuclear power stations in Taishan, Guangdong Province in China.
- Deutsche Bank as original lender and arranger in a debt and equity acquisition financing of a Chinese synthetics material company.
- China Development Bank as the co-lead arranger in the US$750 million Phase 2 loan to Hynix-ST Semiconductors Ltd., one of China's largest integrated circuit manufacturers, to finance the expansion of its wafer production line in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.
- Korean Air Lines in the structuring and negotiating of its establishment of a joint venture in China.
- A technology company in a cross-border divestiture of assets, including licensing of intellectual property.
- Deutsche Bank in its acquisition of non-performing loans from China Construction Bank and subsequent divestitures thereof.
- An international investment bank in the structuring and establishment of a joint venture asset management company.
Bars and Courts
California State Bar, 2005
Education
JD, Boston University School of Law, 2004 Bachelor of Commerce, McGill University, 2000
Languages
Mandarin English French
Citizenship
Canada
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