Eunjee Chae
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Eunjee Chae

Senior Associate

Email

eunjee.chae@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 7655 5987

Offices

London

V-CARD
Eunjee advises on a broad range of international tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged, infrastructure and project financing, derivatives, capital markets, private equity and investment funds transactions.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Japan Industrial Partners on its fund structuring and fundraising in connection with a JIP-led consortium’s successful tender offer for Toshiba Corporation.
  • Exscientia on its transatlantic combination with Recursion Pharmaceuticals to create a leading Nasdaq-listed, technology-first, end-to-end drug discovery company.
  • Institut Mérieux on its disposal of ABL Europe SAS to Oxford Biomedica plc.
  • A multinational telecommunications company on its redomiciliation from London to Bermuda including its reregistration as a private company by way of a scheme of arrangement.
  • Fairfax Financial on the acquisition of Meadow Foods.
  • A global financial institution on its agreement with AllianceBernstein to combine their research and securities brokerage business in a new joint venture.
  • The initial purchasers in connection with Travelodge’s offering of £330 mn senior secured notes due 2028 and €250 mn senior secured floating rate notes due 2028, issued by TVL Finance, and the arrangers on Travelodge’s entry into a new super senior revolving credit facilities agreement.
  • A global specialty chemicals company on its lithium mining and conversion joint venture with Mineral Resources Limited.
  • The financing sources in Blackstone’s public offer for Italian infrastructure group Atlantia, Europe’s largest ever take-private transaction with an enterprise value of €54 bn.
  • The lead arrangers on the financing of the €5.1 bn acquisition by Apax Funds and Warburg Pincus of the entire issued share capital of T-Mobile Netherlands.
  • Petronas on the $15 bn financing and development of the $28 bn RAPID (Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development) project in Malaysia.
  • The lenders on the financing of a $12 bn integrated gasification and combined cycle energy project within the Jazan refinery and terminal complex in Saudi Arabia. Awarded “Global Deal of the Year”, PFI Awards, 2021 and “MENA Hybrid Energy Deal of the Year”, IJGlobal Awards, 2021.
  • The initial purchasers on the $7.75 bn notes issue by Reckitt Benckiser Treasury Services plc in connection with the acquisition of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company.
  • A multinational telecommunications company on its $2.5 bn Dutch auction tender offer and share buy-back.

Pro bono

  • Advising 30 Birds, an organisation supporting the evacuation of hundreds of at-risk female students escaping Kabul, Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.
  • Advising Impact Investment Exchange on the bonds in the IIX Women’s Livelihood Bond Series.

Qualifications

Admissions

Solicitor, England and Wales

Academic

University of Law LPC and MSc in Law, Business and Management (Distinction)

London School of Economics LLB

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.