Deling Chen | Lawyers

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Deling is an associate in Corporate/M&A department of Linklaters’ New York office. Deling has experience representing clients on a variety of cross-border corporate and capital markets transactions, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, entity formation and corporate governance, as well as investment grade bonds, high-yield bonds, median-term-note (MTN) programmes and GDRs.

Experience

Union Acquisition Corp. II: advising on its US$1.1 billion business combination with Crynssen Pharma Group Ltd.
Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp.: advising on its acquisition of Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed agricultural company, at a total value of approximately $236 million.
Q-Energy Private Equity, SGEIC, SA: advising on its acquisition of Heelstone Renewable Energy, LLC, a U.S. utility-scale solar and storage develope, at a total enterprise value of US$375 million.
Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.: advising a consortium of banks as joint book-running managers on the issuance of US$1 billion 1.375% Fixed Rate Notes and US$450 million SOFR Floating Rate Notes under Rabobank’s New York Law 3(a)(2) MTN Program and a consortium of banks as joint lead managers on the issuance of US$1.25 billion 1.980% Fixed Rate Reset under Rabobank’s Dutch law Global Medium Term Note Program.
Lepu Medical Technology: advising on a consortium of banks as joint book-running managers on Lepu’s GDR listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange via the China-Switzerland Stock Connect.
Chindata Group Holdings Limited: advising on its debut issue of US$300 million 10.50% US dollar high yield notes due 2026, the first PRC high yield debut issuance in recent years.
CLI Treasury Limited: advising a consortium of banks as joint lead managers on the issuance of S$425 million 4.20 per cent. Fixed Rate Senior Notes due 2030 by CLI Treasury Limited under its $6 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme.

Beyond the Office

Deling has spent 15 months on his secondment in Capital Markets department of Linklaters’ Singapore and Hong Kong offices.

Education, Qualifications and Languages

B.A., Vanderbilt University, 2016, Double Major in History and Mathematics, graduated with magna cum laude, Dean’s Lists.

J.D., Columbia Law School, 2021, graduated with Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Student Board and Senior Editor of Columbia Journal of Asian Law.

Language skills: Mandarin Chinese (native speaker).

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New York

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