Edward Sun

+8610-5969-2772
ESun@milbank.com
 
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Edward Sun (孙伟清) is a resident partner in our Beijing Office. Ed is a New York-trained attorney who has been practicing law since 1995 and based in the Greater China region since 1997 with broad experience in corporate and financing transactions in China and the Asian markets generally. He specializes in cross-border M&A and private equity deals but also regularly works on IPOs and other securities offerings from China. Ed is ranked as one of Asia’s top private equity lawyers by Chambers Asia, Euromoney/IFLR's Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Private Equity Lawyers and by AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers.

In the private equity area, Ed has regularly represented Citigroup (CVCI), Citadel, EQT, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in growth stage, buy-out, pre-IPO, PIPE and other private equity transactions in China. He was also the senior associate on the Milbank team that represented China Construction Bank in the acquisition by Bank of America of a $5.8 billion equity stake in CCB, the single largest foreign investment in China’s history.

Ed’s capital markets work includes representing Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in connection with the IPO of Tom Online, which was the first ever dual listing on Nasdaq and Hong Kong GEM, and representing Mandra Forestry, a PRC forestry company, in a complex high-yield bond offering that in 2006 earned ALB’s China Debt Market Deal-of-the-Year Award.

Prior to joining Milbank in 2002, Ed was the head internal counsel for the Non-Japan Asia branch of Goldman Sachs’ $5.2 billion private equity fund. During that time, he worked on the Goldman Sachs-led $1.1 billion Series A investment in Shanghai Semiconductor International (SMIC) and on the Goldman Sachs-led initial equity financing for the former China Netcom, as well as numerous other private equity investments. Prior to that, Ed was also the senior counsel to Goldman’s Asian Special Situations Group (ASSG) working on groundbreaking NPL and other distressed asset acquisitions and securitizations, including the earliest transactions with the FRA in Thailand and KAMCO in Korea. Before leaving Goldman, Ed also helped this group pursue NPL transactions in China, including the first Huarong transaction, and to establish an asset servicing operation in the PRC. At Milbank, Ed has represented Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan in several China NPL deals.

Ed began his legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York where he worked on major project financings such as the FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) and Ras Laffan LNG financings. Ed moved to Hong Kong with Davis Polk in 1997 where his practice shifted to the capital markets with a focus on U.S. SEC registered and Rule 144A securities offerings.






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