Biography
Jack trained with Simmons & Simmons and on qualification joined Magic Circle firm, Slaughter and May. He subsequently worked in the London office of Private Equity transactional focused firm, SJ Berwin (which later merged with international firm, King & Wood Mallesons) before joining US law firm FisherBroyles in London in 2020. He is qualified to practise English, Hong Kong and New South Wales law.
Jack is an experienced Corporate and Commercial lawyer and has expertise in complex cross-border Private M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions for Asian, UK and Middle East corporate, private equity, sovereign wealth fund and insurance clients. Earlier in his career, he has advised on a number of IFLR and ALB award-winning Public and Private M&A and Capital Markets transactions in Hong Kong and London. In addition, he has also worked in a Legal 500 / Chambers pan-European Tier 1 ranked Private Equity transactional team in London.
Alongside his corporate practice, over the past decade he has also developed a specialist reputation in the UK as being a “go-to” lawyer for leading independent schools looking to establish managed franchise operations in Asia and the Middle East.
Jack has been recognised by his clients who have praised him in the following ways: “he has expert knowledge and expertise that shines through”; “the excellence of the service”; “going above and beyond”; “helpful, strategic and timely advice, as always”; “a standout performer and supremely able”.
Cross-border M&A
- Spartan, the world’s leading endurance sports brand, in its investment in long-distance hiking event series HIGHLANDER and the formation of a strategic partnership.
- PFSweb, Inc, a Nasdaq listed global commerce services company, on its internal reorganisation and subsequent sale of LiveArea, its global customer experience and commerce agency business unit, to Merkle, Inc. for a consideration of approximately US$250 million.
- Asian consortium comprising numerous leading Chinese listed companies and institutional investors on its cash investment of £2.4 billion in Global Switch, the leading owner, operator and developer of large scale, carrier and cloud neutral data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
- Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America on its investment into an Australian regulated entity with UK FCA regulated subsidiaries.
- A NASDAQ listed company on its auction bid to acquire ETX Capital, a UK FCA regulated online trading platform company.
Private equity and venture capital
- Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund on its investment into Avolon, the international aircraft leasing group.
- HAECO’s acquisition of TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc. based in the US, which created one of the world’s leading providers of aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul services.
- Charlesbank Capital Partners on its acquisition of the IT infrastructure management operations of Acxiom Corporation.
- Allied World Insurance as warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance counsel on a large number of UK mid-market Private Equity transactions covering sectors such as fintech, education, consumer and others.
- Series A investment into Lendinvest, a UK online lender specialising in the property market.
- Wuxi Weifu High-Technology Group on its US$30 million Series E investment into electric car technology firm Protean Holdings.
- Vaccitech Limited, an Oxford University spin-out on its master collaboration agreement with CanSino Biologics Inc.
- An Oxford University TMT sector spin-out on its potential collaboration with and investment from a leading Asian strategic investor.
Jack has worked on the teams that advised on the following award-winning deals:
- The acquisition of Hong Kong’s Wing Hang Bank by Singapore’s Overaeas-Chinese Banking Corporation for a consideration of circa US$5 billion which won IFLR Asia Awards: M&A Deal of the Year and The American Lawyer’s Asia Legal Award: M&A Deal of the Year
- IPO of the People’s Insurance Company of China which was the largest IPO in Hong Kong and the fourth largest IPO globally and which set a global record for the number of underwriters and which won IFLR Asia Awards: Equity Deal of the Year.
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Jack Tsang
Partner
Credentials
Admissions
- England & Wales
Hong Kong
New South Wales
Education
Australian National University, LLM
University of Nottingham, LLB
Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe)
Prior Law Firm Experience
Slaughter and May
Simmons & Simmons
King & Wood Mallesons