Rebecca Wong

Associate

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Rebecca Wong

Associate

rebecca.wong@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography

Rebecca Wong is an associate in Akin's Hong Kong office.

  • Focuses on private and public cross-border debt and equity transactions.
  • Represents clients in financing and corporate matters and financial restructurings in Asia.

Rebecca Wong advises clients on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity transactions, joint ventures, debt and equity investments, corporate restructurings and shareholder activism in Asia.

Representative Work
  • Advising an ad hoc group of lenders in the Chapter 11 cases of Marelli, a Japan-based multinational automotive parts supplier, involving the proposed implementation of restructuring transactions and other matters in connection with emergence from Chapter 11, including the equitization of $4.9 billion in liabilities.

  • Advising a credit fund on a US$52 million financing to promoters of a listed company in India.
  • Advising a credit fund on a US$200 million financing to a borrower to acquire securities listed in India.
  • Advising an ad hoc committee of holders of the US$350 million and US$414 million bonds issued by Azure Power Solar Energy Ltd and Azure Power Energy Ltd on a restructuring of the bonds.
  • Advising a credit investor on a US$100 million External Commercial Borrowing facility to an Indian borrower.
  • Advising a creditor of Vedanta Resources on the restructuring of its US$100 million facility to Vedanta.
  • Advising an ad hoc group of noteholders in relation to a restructuring of over US$1.5 billion of liabilities in Noble Group’s commodities trading business.
  • Advising a growth equity fund in relation to a potential restructuring of a Singapore-based crypto company.
  • Advising a private credit fund on a US$100 million (in aggregate principal amount) financing to a financial services company based in Vietnam.
  • Advising a private credit fund on a US$63 million financing to an affiliate of a metals and mining company based in India.
  • Representing Elliott Management on various activist, private equity and arbitrage investments across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region including:
    • Its multiyear investment in Toshiba Corporation, a leading Japanese industrial conglomerate listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the resulting appointment of a senior Elliott representative to the Toshiba board.
    • Its investment in Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd., a leading Japanese automotive battery component supplier listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
    • Its multi-year investment in SoftBank Group Corp, a leading Japanese telecommunications and technology conglomerate listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
  • Representing Millennium Capital Management on multimillion-dollar arbitrage investments across the US, the UK, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Korea, and Australia.

Languages
  • Mandarin

  • Cantonese

Education
  • LL.B., University of Hong Kong, 2020

  • P.C.L.L., University of Hong Kong, 2021

Bar Admissions
  • Solicitor, Hong Kong

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