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Sean Ching Baker Botts Singapore
Sean Ching Baker Botts Singapore
Sean Ching
Special Counsel
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Overview

Sean Ching is a Special Counsel in our Corporate practice based in Singapore, with extensive experience advising on complex cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures in the Asia-Pacific region across various sectors including telecommunications, financial services, insurance and real estate.

He frequently advises on trans-Pacific and trans-Indian Ocean digital infrastructure projects including submarine telecommunications cable transactions and associated infrastructure projects.

Sean has also acted as the lead technology counsel on significant digital bond issuances in Hong Kong.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • Qualified Solicitor, High Court of Hong Kong, 2015

Education

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2012
  • J.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2011
  • B.A., Political Science, Saint John's University 2009

Experience

  • Meta (formerly Facebook) on the establishment or restructure of a number of joint ventures to build, own and operate trans-Pacific and intra-Asia telecoms networks (including in respect of Singapore, India, Indonesia, the U.S. and several other Asian jurisdictions)
  • Axiata Group Berhad and Dialog Axiata Plc on merging its Sri Lanka telecommunication operations with Bharti Airtel Limited in an equity swap deal to create the largest telecoms business in Sri Lanka and the establishment of a new Mobile Telecoms Joint Venture in Sri Lanka between Axiata and Bharti
  • CK Hutchison on the TMT aspect of its €10 billion sale of its portfolio of telecommunications towers assets in Europe to Cellnex
  • EdgePoint Infrastructure (a DigitalBridge-backed platform): on the corporate aspect of its US$750 million sale-and-leaseback acquisition of a portfolio of more than 4,200 telecommunications towers from PT Indostat Tbk
  • Citi on its US$3.7 billion sale of its consumer banking business in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam to United Overseas Bank
  • Citi on its US$1.2 billion sale of its consumer banking business in the Philippines to Union Bank of the Philippines
  • The Bank of East Asia on its HK$5.07 billion sale of its life insurance unit, BEA Life Limited to AIA and the formation of a 15-year exclusive bancassurance partnership with AIA covering Hong Kong, Macau and the PRC
  • The Bank of Montreal on the sale of its private banking business in Hong Kong and Singapore by way of a business sale to the J. Safra Sarasin Group
  • BlackRock on its first South Korea solar farm acquisition from Japanese renewable energy developer Influx
  • Lightsource BP on its acquisition of a ground mounted photovoltaic solar energy production system in Kushiro, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan from Biopower S.L. by way of a share sale
  • A global wind energy company on its auction sale of minority interests in offshore wind farms in Ulsan, Korea
  • A Hong Kong real estate fund on its HK$5.9 billion proposed acquisition of the D-Park shopping mall from New World Development
  • Telstra on the sale of Hong Kong mobile operator CSL to HKT for US$2.4 billion
  • Telstra on its US$10 million divestment of its internet service provider businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand
  • Hyundai Motor Group on the establishment of a US$4 billion joint venture with Aptiv PLC for the design, development and commercialisation of software technologies, services, systems, vehicle architecture and other related enabling offerings with respect to Level 4 and 5 autonomous driving
  • Walsin Lihwa on its joint venture with Danish company NKT to acquire technology to manufacture offshore power cables in Taiwan
  • An Asian sovereign wealth fund on its proposed joint venture with a Korean REIT to hold and develop a logistics facility in South Korea
  • A global freight forwarding company on a joint venture to establish and operate a freight forwarding business in Bangladesh
  • A global freight forwarding company on the exit from its Hong Kong joint venture with a Hong Kong-listed logistics company and the disposal of its interests in the joint venture to a multinational logistics company based in Dubai
  • SuperGroup Plc on its £9 million PRC based retail joint venture with Trendy Group in respect of “Superdry” branded clothing
  • HSBC as platform counsel in respect of HSBC's role as the platform provider to HKMA on the world's first multi-currency digital bond offering issued by the Government of Hong Kong
  • Thinxtra on its submission to OFCA for permission to establish IoT business in Hong Kong leading to the creation and granting by as one of the first recipients of OFCA’s new Wireless IoT Licence