Taiki Ki

Taiki is a partner in our capital markets group. With over 14 years’ experience in the Asia-Pacific region, Taiki has extensive experience advising in a broad range of capital markets transactions across Asia, with a particular focus on convertible and exchangeable bonds and liability management and restructurings, as well as corporate hybrids, medium term note programme establishments and drawdowns, private and pre-IPO fund raisings and regulatory capital transactions. He has also extensive experience advising on hybrid financing structures combining elements of loans, bonds and equities. 

Work highlights

Taiki has advised on many of the region’s most innovative and market firsts capital markets deals in recent years, including:

• Sunac’s restructuring of over US$10.2bn of offshore debt, including through the issuance of multiple series of notes, a convertible bond and a mandatory convertible bond and a debt for equity swap.
• Aoyuan’s restructuring of approximately US$7.3bn offshore debt under a dual and parallel scheme and involving the issuance of perpetual securities, multiple series of notes and a mandatory convertible bond
• C.H.M.T. Peaceful Development Asia Property Limited issuance of senior and mezzanine bonds to finance the acquisition of The Center in Hong Kong, at the time the world’s most expensive commercial building valued at US$5.15bn.
• FWD Limited and FWD Group Limited issuances of convertible preference shares and cumulative and non-cumulative perpetual bonds.
• Meituan US$1.48bn zero coupon convertible bonds due 2027 and US$1.5bn zero coupon convertible bonds due 2028 and concurrent placing of existing shares and top-up subscription of shares.
• Cathay Pacific issuance of HK$19.5bn preference shares with detachable warrants as part of its HK$39bn recapitalisation financing, as well as its follow-on issuance of HK$6.74bn guaranteed convertible bonds due 2026.
• LG Chem’s US$2bn dual tranche exchangeable bonds due 2028 and 2030 and SK Hynix’s US$1.7bn convertible bonds due 2030.
• Restructurings of HK$2.088bn convertible bonds issued by China YuHua Education and US$125bn convertible bonds issued by China Maple 

Taiki studied law at Worcester College, Oxford University.

Taiki is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales.