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Welber Yim

Of Counsel

Email

welber.yim@aoshearman.com

Phone

+852 2974 7178

Offices

Hong Kong

V-CARD
Welber focuses on real estate and securitised financing and cross-border structured financing.

He has extensive experience in a wide range of finance areas, including general banking finance, real estate and structured finance, performing and non-performing loans portfolio finance, public and private acquisition finance and capital call and equity bridge finance. He frequently acts for major banks, financial institutions, private equity and credit funds and multinational borrowers in bilateral, syndicated, secured and unsecured loan transactions and refinancing. Welber’s focus is mainly on Hong Kong SAR, Mainland China and cross-border financing investments, involving lenders and borrowers from Greater China, Asia and Europe.

Welber is named as a rising star lawyer in the Hong Kong banking and finance practice by Legal 500, 2024.  He is also a member of the documentation committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association.

His experience also includes secondment to the Commercial Real Estate and Securitised Product Group of a global investment bank. Welber is qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong and England and Wales and is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Experience

Representative matters

A joint venture formed by a Hong Kong leading property developer and a Middle East sovereign fund as borrower on syndicated loan financing and subsequent refinancing in respect of a portfolio of three five-star hotels in Wanchai and Tsim Sha Tsui.

The lenders on a mezzanine loan in respect of the acquisition of Cityplaza Three (High Zone) and Cityplaza Four, Hong Kong.

A pension fund investor and a leading Chinese real estate investment group on a proposed structured financing transaction with a PRC real estate developer, which involves the establishment of a two-tier equity joint venture structure and offshore / onshore loan and security arrangements.

A credit fund on its securitised loan transaction in respect of the receivables over consumer automobile financing portfoilio.

Pro bono

  • A&O Hong Kong Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee member since 2021 • Led and co-authored the Liberty Asia's submission to the Financial Action Task Force of Hong Kong on the issue of Human Trafficking, Labour Trafficking and Forced Labour in 2018
  •  A&O Hong Kong Pro Bono Committee member from 2011 to 2017

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

Law Society of Hong Kong Law Society in England and Wales Documentation Committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA)

Awards

  • Rising star lawyer in the Hong Kong banking and finance practice, Legal 500, 2024

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as solicitor, Hong Kong, 2013

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2020

Academic

Law Student Exchange Programme, The University of Warwick, 2008-2009

Bachelor of Laws (Hons), The University of Hong Kong, 2010

PCLL (Distinction), The University of Hong Kong, 2011

Languages

Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), English
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.