Steven Sha
Partner, Hong Kong SAR
Biography
Overview
Steve Sha is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice, based in Hong Kong.
Steve advises private equity funds, private and public companies and financial investors on a wide range of private equity and other M&A matters. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions across Asia and globally, including sponsor-led acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, PIPEs, joint ventures, strategic M&A, restructurings and venture financings.
Bars and Courts
Hong Kong
California State Bar
US Patent and Trademark Office
Education
JD
Stanford Law School
BS
Stanford University
Languages
English
Mandarin
Experience
Steve Sha's experience* includes representing:
- Advent International in its acquisition, consolidation and subsequent sale of Serta China, a leading mattress business in China.
- Bain Capital Credit in its US$300 million investment in D&J China.
- Bain Capital in its US$2.7 billion sale of Carver Korea, its US$800 million acquisition of a controlling stake in Hugel Inc., and its sale of the Gymboree Play & Music business in China.
- CPPIB in the US$4.3 billion consortium take-private of NYSE-listed Nord Anglia Education.
- NewQuest Capital Partners in its sale of Integreon, a business process outsourcing provider with a significant Asia footprint, to EagleTree Capital.
- CMC Capital in a Series D investment in Giphy, Inc.
- Temasek in its healthcare joint venture with Columbia Pacific and its investment in Nasdaq-listed 21vianet.
- GSR/GO Scale Capital in its proposed US$3.3 billion acquisition of 80.1% of Philips' Lumileds business.
- Uber's strategic partnership with Baidu in China.
- Tencent in its strategic partnerships with and investments in NYSE-listed 58.com and Nasdaq-listed JD.com.
*Includes experience prior to joining White & Case
Publications
What China's IPO Crisis Means for PE Investors, China Law & Practice, May/June, 2013.
