Jini Lee
Jini Lee

Jini Lee

Partner, Division Chair, Finance, Funds & Restructuring and Head of Region Asia

Hong Kong

+852 2846 8977 | +852 9630 1752
Jini.Lee@ashurstperkins.com

Introduction

Jini is well known for her deep understanding of debt capital markets and financing and restructuring transactions.

Jini Lee is Division Chair, Finance, Funds & Restructuring on the Global Leadership Team of Ashurst Perkins Coie and Head of Region Asia.

Jini has worked out of Singapore, London and Hong Kong and has wide-ranging experience in advising investment banks, corporates, governments and government agencies in capital market transactions globally. She regularly advises top tier investment banks, commercial banks and issuers as well as monoline insurers. Her range of expertise includes standalone bonds across all currencies, medium term notes and commercial paper programs, liability management exercises (buybacks, tender offers and consent solicitations) and equity-linked transactions (convertible and exchangeable bonds). She has advised on digital bond transactions, including platform providers in various tokenized bond transactions.

Jini is qualified in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Singapore and was awarded Asian Legal Business "Woman Lawyer of the Year" in 2020.

Jini is a member of the global leadership team and also sits on the AI commercial advisory committee and the technology industry.

  • China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group | Lead partner | 2026 | Advised company on the restructuring of USD2.1 billion of bonds.
  • Link Real Estate Investment Trust (LINK REIT) | Lead partner | 2026 | Advised in relation to their update of US$5 billion MTN Programme of CSI MTN Limited and issuance of US$600 million notes due 2036.
  • CITIC Securities International Company Limited | Lead partner | 2025 | Advised on the update of US$3 billion MTN Program of CSI MTN Limited and related drawdowns under the program.
  • Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (CGIF), a trust fund of the Asian Development Bank | Lead partner | 2025 | Advised on various guarantees by CGIF of guaranteed bonds issued by Asian companies in South-East Asia.
  • HSBC | Partner | 2025 | as platform counsel on the issuance of HK$10 billion digitally native bonds involving the use of digital money, following on its first digitally native corporate bond offering on HSBC Orion and the world's first multicurrency digital green bonds by the Hong Kong SAR government. Awarded Debt Market Deal of the Year by ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2025.
  • CLSA Limited and HSBC | Partner | 2025 | as joint lead managers on issuance of HK$1.6 billion convertible bonds issued by Vobile Group Limited.
  • China Industrial Securities International Brokerage Limited and other Joint Lead Managers | Lead partner | 2024 | Advised on the issuance of US$100 million 7.5% notes due 2027 by UETD Construction & Development State-owned Capital Investment Operation (Group) Co., Ltd. 
  • HSBC | Lead partner | 2024 | Advised on the provision of its digital assets platform – HSBC Orion to the Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in connection with the issuance of a digitally native green bond (Digital Green Bonds).  
  • Bank of China | Lead partner | 2024 | Advised branches Bank of China, Hong Kong Branch and Bank of China, Macau Branch in relation to the update of its US$2 billion structured notes program. 
  • U.S. Investment Bank | Partner | 2024 | as platform counsel on the issuance of HK$800 million tokenized green bonds issued by the HK SAR government. This issuance was an innovation in digital assets for Hong Kong. Awarded Debt Market Deal of the Year by ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2023
  • The Joint Lead Managers | Lead partner | 2024 | Advised on the issuance of CNY260m 3.6% Credit Enhanced Notes due 2027 issued by UETD Construction & Development State-owned Capital Investment Operation (Group) Co., Ltd. with the benefit of an irrevocable standby letter of credit issued by Bank of Beijing Co., Ltd. Urumqi Branch. This was the first MOX-listed Lotus Bond, issued by a non-financial institution in China since the registration system operated by the Macao Central Securities Depository and Clearing Limited had been implemented, and this was also the first Lotus Bond issuance in China with the benefit of a standby letter of credit for credit enhancement. 

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