Biography
Eva Yu is Counsel in White & Case's Asia Debt Finance group, based in Hong Kong. She has experience with a variety of finance transactions, including syndicated lending, real estate financings and major acquisition financings.
Eva is a committee member of Women in Law Hong Kong (WILHK) and serves as a director of The Youth Arch Foundation (YAF), a charitable organization focusing on youth development.
In 2025, Eva was recognized as one of ALB's Hong Kong Rising Stars.
She has also spent six months each in White & Case's Beijing and London offices.
Experience
Eva's recent experience includes advising:
- bolttech Holdings Limited as borrower in relation to a term loan facility by HSBC in Hong Kong and guaranteed by bolttech's subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions including the US, Singapore, Luxembourg, Poland and Hong Kong.
- FWD Group Holdings Limited and FWD Group Limited in relation to a US$1.5 billion syndicated loan arranged by Standard Chartered Bank and Mizuho Bank.
- E.Sun Commercial Bank as lender in the financing to the borrower for its acquisition of the holding company which indirectly owns Nexxus Building in whole. Nexxus Building is a grade-A commercial building located in the heart of Central, Hong Kong, comprising of 18 floors of office space above a four-storey retail podium.
- China CITIC Bank International Limited in a credit facility to a consortium led by Templewater Holdings Limited (via its subsidiary Templewater Bravo Holdings Limited) in the HK$3.2 billion (approx. US$409 million) acquisition of Bravo Transport Services Limited (formerly NWS Transport Services Limited) which owns New World First Bus Services Limited and Citybus Limited, the leading bus services operators in Hong Kong.
- Gaw Capital Partners, a leading real estate private equity firm headquartered in Hong Kong, in multiple landmark transactions, including but not limited to:
- the refinancing facilities of up to HK$14.4 billion backed by a portfolio of 16 shopping malls in Hong Kong which were acquired from the Link REIT in 2018.
- the HK$5.29 billion financing for the HK$9.845 billion acquisition of CityPlaza One office building in Hong Kong from Swire Properties. The loan was provided by Standard Chartered Bank and United Overseas Bank Limited.
- the US$480 million secured syndicated loan to finance the acquisition by the consortium advised by Gaw Capital Partners of InterContinental Hong Kong from the InterContinental Hotels Group. HSBC and UOB were the mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.
- The lenders on a HKD facility to a JV co-owned by KKR and a Hong Kong property developer for its acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Ma On Shan, New Territories, Hong Kong, and a HKD facility to the same JV for its acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong.
- A joint venture consortium led by Phoenix Property Investors in a HK$2.18 billion syndicated senior secured term loan facility provided by a lenders group of seven banks to finance the acquisition of three shopping malls in Tseung Kwan O, New Territories and general working capital needs with respect to these properties.