King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) is pleased to announce the promotion of Andrew Fei to our Hong Kong partnership, further strengthening our leading Hong Kong Banking & Finance capability.
Richard Mazzochi, Partner & Head of Hong Kong Banking & Finance said, “We are delighted to have Andrew joining the KWM partnership in Hong Kong. Andrew is a talented bilingual lawyer with a broad practice covering structured finance, derivatives, syndicated loans, capital markets, securitisation and financial regulation. Andrew’s promotion adds further strength to our market leading Hong Kong Banking & Finance team to provide premier one-stop service offerings. It reflects our continued commitment to assist our financial services clients in capturing the numerous cross-border opportunities between Hong Kong, China Mainland and jurisdictions across the globe.”
Andrew advises major financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of innovative structured finance transactions, cross-border derivatives transactions, close-out netting and collateral arrangements, syndicated financing transactions, Basel III regulatory capital instruments, securities financing transactions and financial regulatory matters. Recently, he is part of the cross-border KWM team which prepared the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s ground-breaking China netting and collateral opinions, marking a new chapter in China’s derivatives market.
Prior to joining KWM Hong Kong office in 2022, Andrew worked in KWM Melbourne office for nearly 7 years. Andrew graduated from Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. He has been regularly quoted as an expert by international press including Financial Times, New York Times and IFLR on various recent banking & finance market developments.
With the appointment of Andrew Fei as a Partner, KWM Hong Kong office has 33 registered partners and over 240 qualified lawyers. KWM continues to be the largest Hong Kong international law firm for 4 consecutive years since 2019 (ALB Top 50 Asia Firm Rankings).
Any reference to “Hong Kong” or “Hong Kong SAR” shall be construed as a reference to “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China”.
