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Roger is known for his advice on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private investment funds, joint ventures, and venture capital and emerging companies.
Roger Dong advises on mergers and acquisitions, private investment funds, venture capital and emerging company transactions and joint ventures.
Roger has advised on matters throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and US and across a range of industries including technology, telecommunications, real estate, financial services and energy and resources. Roger also has broad experience advising institutional clients, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises, on their global private investment fund investments.
Roger is admitted in Hong Kong and Victoria, Australia and is fluent in English, Mandarin and Shanghainese. Roger worked as a mining processing engineer prior to his career in law.
- Taiping assets management (Hong Kong) | Advised separately on (1) its co-management and investment in Victoria Harbour Nexus Innovation fund, the first fund to complete fundraising under the Hong Kong SAR Government’s optimized Innovation and Technology Venture Fund scheme, and (2) on its strategic cooperation with Cyberport and it joining the Taiping GBA Inno-Tech Limited Partnership Fund.
- Chifeng Gold | Advised on its proposed acquisition of a gold mine based in West Africa.
- Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) | Advised on multiple early stage investments, including its co-investment in Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company based in Hong Kong, as a part of a US$255m series C financing led by Warburg Pincus.
- A sovereign wealth fund | Advised on multiple fund investments including their US$300 million commitment to TPG Asia VIII (B), L.P. and concurrent US$50 million co-invest.
- Meta (previously "Facebook") | Advised on the establishment of multiple joint ventures with other technology and telecoms companies to build, own and operate subsea cable systems in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Far East Consortium and New World Development | Advised on the HK$7,948,000,000 acquisition of a multi-residential development project located at Kai Tak, Hong Kong. Shortlisted for the M&A Deal of the Year, Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2022.
- Mitsui & Co., Ltd. | Advised on its sale with J-Power of their interests in the 2GW Hezhou coal fired power plant to China Resources Power; and on its investment in Hexagon Purus.
- APC Group | Advised on the sale by Navis to Longreach Group, and on its bolt-on acquisition of I-Chem Solutions.
- VimpelCom (now known as "Veon") | Advised on the sale of its controlling interest in a Lao mobile telecoms business.
- Weave Co-Living | Advised on its joint venture with 32 Capital in the establishment of an investment company to acquire, develop, refurbish and operate co-living accommodation assets in Singapore.
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