Kal Leung

Associate, Silicon Valley

Biography

Overview

Kal Leung is an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group in the Firm's Silicon Valley office. Kal was previously an associate in the Firm's London office.

Kal has experience in corporate transactions and advisory, advising both public and private corporations as well on venture capital financings.

Kal joined White & Case as a trainee, gaining experience in the Firm's Construction, Corporate M&A, and Capital Markets departments in London, and spent six months working with the Corporate team in the Firm's New York office.

Bars and Courts
California State Bar
Solicitor, England and Wales
Barrister and Solicitor, Ontario
Education
Legal Practice Course
BPP Law School
MSc
Law and Finance
University of Oxford
LLB
University College London
Languages
English
French
Cantonese

Experience

Recent experiences include the representation of:

Autotalks, a fabless semiconductor company devoted to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications for manned and autonomous vehicles, in its sale to Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM)

Flexjet, a global leader in subscription-based private aviation, on its US$3 Billion Business Combination with Horizon Acquisition Corporation II (NYSE: HZON)

Lightrock's Climate Impact Fund on its participation in the Series C financing round of Group14 Technologies, a global manufacturer and supplier of advanced silicon battery technology

A sovereign wealth fund in several matters including its participation in Series A and Series C financing rounds of two biomedical companies

Falcon's Beyond Global, a leading fully integrated global entertainment development company, on its US$1 Billion Business Combination with FAST Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE:FZT)

Hello Heart Ltd, a digital therapeutic company that focuses on heart health, on its US $70 million Series D Financing.

ADVANZ PHARMA on its acquisition of the ex-US business of Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ICPT)

JTC plc (LON: JTC) in its acquisition of SALI Fund Services, a provider of fund services to the Insurance Dedicated Fund and Separately Managed Account market, with US$15.8 billion of assets under management.

Siemplify, an Israeli cybersecurity and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider, in its sale to Google LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL)

Nasdaq Helsinki-listed Neste Oyj (HEL: NESTE) on the divestment of its NEXBASE base oils business to Chevron and the Bahrain National Oil and Gas Authority.

FTSE-100 constituent, Smiths Group plc (LON: SMIN) on its sale of Smiths Medical to TA Associates for US$2.3 billion.

Qatalyst Partners, as financial adviser to Dialog Semiconductor Plc, on the €4.886 billion public offer by Renesas Electronics Corporation for Dialog Semiconductor Plc.

UniCredit S.p.A. (BIT: UCG) on the accelerated book building process for the sale of its 12 percent stake in Yapi Kredi.

FTSE-250 constituent, Energean plc (LON:ENOG) on its US$750 million acquisition of Edison E&P.

Bright Scholar Education Holdings (NYSE: BEDU) on its £150 million acquisition of CATS Colleges, an international school network with a platform of campuses located across the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and China from Cambridge Education Group and Bridgepoint.