Alexandra Bidlake

Alex has extensive experience advising corporates, financial sponsors and financial institutions on a wide range of public and private M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate finance and general corporate advisory matters. She is recognised in the market for her experience in Hong Kong takeovers and is a member of the SFC’s Takeovers and Mergers Panel and Takeovers Appeal Committee. She is also actively involved in the energy and infrastructure sector.

Alex is ranked as a leading M&A lawyer by Chambers and was named M&A Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards Asia 2021.

Work highlights

• Actis on its acquisition of a majority stake in a Singapore-incorporated platform joint venture, alongside Levanta Renewables, set up to hold three onshore wind assets in development in Vietnam and to invest in a further pipeline of Southeast Asian renewable energy opportunities.
• BlackRock on its investments in South Korean solar development and investment company Brite Energy Partners (BEP), as well as its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korea Renewables Energy Development & Operations Holdings (KREDO). 
• Cathay Pacific on its HK$39bn recapitalisation, involving an issue of preference shares and warrants, rights issue and bridge loan. 
• On the US$100bn merger and reorganisation of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa, and the concurrent spin-off and listing of their merged property business.
• Jardine Motors on its US$1.3bn sale of Zung Fu China, a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Mainland China, to Zhongsheng Group Holdings.
• Kerry Logistics and other Kerry group companies on the HK$17.6bn partial offer made by S.F. Holding for 51.8% of HK-listed Kerry Logistics.
• A consortium comprising the founders and CVC on the US$1.4bn management buyout and take-private of HK-listed Razer Inc.
• Shanghai-listed Xinjiang Xintai Natural Gas on its HK$3.2bn hostile partial offer to acquire 50.5% of the issued share capital of HK-listed AAG Energy Holdings – the first hostile partial offer in Hong Kong.

Alex led the Linklaters team that published a report, in collaboration with the 30% Club Hong Kong, looking at nomination and diversity on Hong Kong boards. She is a regular speaker on diversity, regulatory risk and corporate governance issues, including at the annual panel events run by the British Chamber of Commerce's Women in Business Committee, the IFLR Asia Women in Business Law Forum and the 30% Club Boardroom Lunch.

She wrote, with others, Path of least resistance to enhance listing regulation, Linklaters, October 2017.

Alex studied economics, management and computer science at Queen’s College and for an MPhil in land economy at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.