Overview
Mei is a partner in the Corporate and Structured Lending practice at Linklaters in London. With over 20 years of experience, she is known for advising on high-value, cross-border finance transactions and is a market-leading specialist in private capital and credit solutions.
Mei’s practice covers the full credit spectrum, with particular expertise in stressed and distressed situations, innovative bespoke financings, and complex restructurings. She acts for a diverse client base, representing institutional investors, corporate borrowers, private equity funds, issuers and hedge funds.
Before joining Linklaters, Mei was a partner and London co-chair at Paul Hastings.
Mei is listed as a 'Leading Partner’ for Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency in Legal 500’s UK 2025 rankings.
Experience
- Fund clients: advising on a secured financing (including an equity component) in a pharmaceutical company.
- Fund clients: advising on a preference share investment in a Turkish pharmaceutical company.
- Fund clients: advising on a senior and second lien financing to a Turkish mobile game application developer.
- Fund clients: advising on a structured financing relating to the supply of TPUs.
- A consortium of investors: advising on the provision of litigation financing relating to a portfolio of claims.
- A consortium of investors: advising on a structured investment in a multinational quick-service restaurant franchisee.
- A consortium of lenders: advising on a preferred share financing for Apex Group Ltd., a leading fund administration and financial services provider, and on an equity investment in the group.
- Fund clients: advising on a second lien facility to a leading franchisee in the Nordic region.
- Fund clients: advising on an investment in notes issued by a Chilean salmon farming company and the subsequent restructuring via a Chilean process.
- Fund clients: advising on a structured financing of receivables in connection with the exercise of a put option related to shares in a joint venture.
- Fund clients: advising on sovereign debt restructurings.
- Fund clients: advising on various back leverage financing transactions, involving total return swaps, repackagings and asset level financing structures.
*Includes matters handled prior to joining Linklaters.
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