Combining Corporate, Investment Banking, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Capital Markets
Experience & Track Record
We bring to you a strong team of highly skilled and driven individuals with diverse skill-sets and depth of expertise in various professional fields including investment banking, corporate, management consultancy, law and finance. Our team is lead by our core management team comprising:
Morgan Zhang
Vice President, China
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MBA from Qinghua University – University of Wales
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Started his career with Yintone, one of China’s earliest and largest marketing services providers for financial products
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Director of Corporate Development for Financial Institutions, responsible for providing sales and marketing solutions to financial institutions.He was also engaged in providing advisory services to clients on IPO roadshow, investor relations and investment
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Clients included Industrial Bank, BOC Hong Kong, Standard Chartered, HSBC, First Securities etc.
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Subsequently he joined Dale Carnegie as their management consultant for the China region, providing management consulting and human resources advisory services
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Involved in the formulation of new business initiatives and corporate development programs for Dale Carnegie in China
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Clients included Microsoft China, Coca Cola, Volvo, Penda, Shenzhen SCP Commercial Properties, Tesco Properties etc.
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Was also formerly Deputy General Manager for Zhejiang Tourism Group’s fund management business, providing funding channels and mergers and acquisitions advice to real estate developers, and providing asset management to large scale commercial and hospitality properties
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Worked with strategic partners such as Carlyle, Blackstone, UOB Bank, China Development Bank etc.
James C H Tan
Managing Director
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Founder of Theron Capital
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Formerly Corporate Finance Director at HSBC Investment Bank in Hong Kong and Singapore for over 10 years
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Formerly Justices' Law Clerk reporting to the Honourable the Chief Justice of Singapore
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English barrister - top award at the International Bar Exam
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Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore
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Chartered Financial Analyst
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First Class Honors, University of Cambridge
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Instrumental in asset injections of red chip companies e.g. Shanghai Industrial in 1990s
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Instrumental in cross-border corporate & debt restructuring of China JV involving Nippon Sheet Glass, SembCorp and Indonesian government
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Advisers to bidders of assets proposed to be disposed by Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency post Asian financial crisis
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Advisers to bidders for power assets in Taiwan proposed to be disposed by NRG
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Advisers to bidders for power assets in Indonesian proposed to be disposed by PowerGen
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Advisers to bidders for paper mills in China
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Instrumental in USD500 million H-share listing of Jiangsu Expressway on Hong Kong Exchange
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Instrumental in debt restructuring of Danatama Finance involving International Finance Corporation as part of the lender consortium
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Instrumental in mandatory general offer of TLB Land in Singapore
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Instrumental in establishing USD500 million China real estate fund in 1995, listing of pre-IPO going public bond in 1996, and listing of New World China in Hong Kong in 1999
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Instrumental in issuance of USD400 million pre-IPO bond with warrants, USD900 million IPO of Shui On Land, to post listing introduction over RMB10 billion of strategic investors and capital markets fund raising
W Timothy Addison
Chairman & CEO
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Veteran former investment banker with more than 30 years of investment banking, M&A and global capital markets experience
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Formerly COO of HSBC Investment Bank Asia
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Formerly Executive Director of Shui On Land, a company listed on the mainboard of Hong Kong Exchange
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Formerly CFO of Shui On Land
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Formerly Chairman of Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Corporate Governance Committee and Ethics Committee at Shui On Land
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Formerly Independent director of USD550 million Triskele China Fund
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Advised Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company on their listing of £631 million nominal deferred stock in Hong Kong
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Advised Hong Kong Electric Holdings on their US$300 million rights issue in Hong Kong
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Advised Marco Polo Hotel on their S$170 million IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange
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Advised on numerous takeovers and schemes of arrangement including blue chip clients such as Hutchison Whampoa, Wharf, Wheelock, East Asiatic, East Asia Navigation, Lane Crawford, Swire Properties, and Shui On Group etc
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Advised the Wharf Group in a US$320 million acquisition of Harbour Centre Development in Hong Kong
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Advised numerous other IPOs on the Singapore Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange including Citybus, Daido Concrete, Hong Fok Corporation, Hotel Tai Pan, Logic International, Luen Fat Hong, Playmates, Pricerite, Shui On Construction, Tai Fook Securities, Whimsy, Yaohan etc.