Rita Kan
Solicitor
rkan@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity Transactions
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Shareholder Activism
Biography
Rita Kan is an associate in Akin's Hong Kong office.
- Advises on public and private cross-border transactions.
Rita has experience advising financial institutions and corporates in capital markets, banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general compliance matters.
Prior to joining Akin, Rita was a corporate associate at a leading global law firm.
Representative Work
- Advised China Power International Development Limited on its US$3.8 billion-asset restructuring.*
- Advised Cathay Pacific Airways Limited on the repurchase of warrants issued to the Hong Kong government as part of its HK$3.9 billion recapitalisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.*
- Advised the offeror on the voluntary conditional general cash offer to acquire all issued shares in a regional rural commercial bank in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).*
- Advised a Hong Kong virtual bank on its issue of preference shares and warrants.
- Advised MTR Corporation Limited on the annual update of its debt issuance programme and issuances of debt securities listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange thereunder, including its first public issuance of offshore Renminbi green bonds and the largest-ever USD corporate subordinated perpetual securities in Asia (ex-Japan).*
- Advised companies in the Swire Group on the annual update of their medium term note programmes and issuances of debt securities listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange thereunder.*
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
Cantonese
Mandarin
EducationP.C.L.L., University of Hong Kong, 2022
B.A., University of Cambridge, 2021
P.C.L.L., University of Hong Kong, 2022
B.A., University of Cambridge, 2021
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, Hong Kong
Solicitor, Hong Kong
