Rossana Chu

Rossana Chu is known for her expertise across mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate finance. She wins praise for her handling of a wide variety of Hong Kong and cross-border M&A including takeovers and privatizations of listed companies, cross-border transactions, asset management, ESG and sustainability, financings of acquisitions and restructuring-related deals, capital markets transactions, corporate finance, technology law, regulatory compliance, and employment legal issues. Her client base encompasses international conglomerates, listed companies, financial institutions, private companies, fund houses, high-net-wealth individuals and family enterprises.

Rossana is an award-winning lawyer, international accolades include Legal 500 Asia Pacific Leading Individual, IFLR1000 Highly Regarded Leading Lawyer, asialaw Client Service Excellence Awards The Highest Rated Lawyer to work with (2021), China Business Law Journal “A-List – China’s Elite 100 Lawyers (Foreign Firms), Lexology Client Choice, In-House Community Commended External Counsel, Global Law Experts M&A Law Experts, Leaders in Law M&A Law Expert, Legal Media 360 Ranked Lawyer.

As a thought leader in the legal industry, Rossana has been recognised as a Lexology Legal Influencer in Q1-2021, Q2-2021, and Q1-2022. She also contributes legal articles to China Business Law Journal (since 2020) and was interviewed by various renowned media and legal publications including: The Legal 500 fivehundred (2021), ALB Managing Partner Roundtable (2019, 2020, 2022), ALB M&A Rankings (2021), ALB Journalist (2020), ABLJ law firm survey (2022), CBLJ legal market research (2022, 2023), CBLJ Chinese Outbound Investment Report (2021), CBLJ Market Pulse (2021), The LegalOne (2023).

Asialaw Client Service Excellence The Highest Rated Lawyer to work with of the Year 2021 in Capital Markets

• Capital markets
• Corporate and M&A
• Investment funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Private equity

• Industrials and manufacturing
• Consumer goods and services
• Banking and financial services
• Real estate
• Technology and telecommunications

• Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong (1999)
• Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (2001, not-practising)

• Member, The Law Society of Hong Kong
• Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (UK)
• Arbitrator, China Guangzhou Arbitration Commission
• Member, The Hong Kong Institute of Directors
• Affiliate Member, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom

• HKD-RMB Dual Counter Model in Hong Kong’s stock market (17 July 2023)
• White Paper sheds light on China’s ESG requirements (12 June 2023)
• Listing in Hong Kong of a World Bank catastrophe bond (21 April 2023)