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Viola Jing

Partner

Hong Kong

Jing Viola
Viola Jing

Partner

Hong Kong

Viola has experience in advising on restructurings, insolvencies and workouts in a wide range of industries and jurisdictions.

She advises and assists debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, coordinating committees, creditors’ committees, debtors and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of financial restructuring and insolvency cases. Viola is highly experienced in advising steering committees of creditors on complex, cross-border financial restructurings involving PRC elements, and has particular experience in bankruptcy and insolvency litigation. Viola was voted Rising Star of the Year at the 2020 IFLR Asia Pacific Awards.

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Experience highlights

Expertise

Practices

Banking and Finance

Restructuring

Office

Hong Kong

9th Floor, Three Exchange Square, Central
Hong Kong

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as a Solicitor (Hong Kong), 2009

Academic

Diploma in Insolvency, Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 2012

PCLL, Law, The University of Hong Kong, 2007

LLB, Law, The University of Hong Kong, 2006

B.Sc., Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003

Other noteworthy experience 

Advising: 

  • A syndicate led by a leading PRC commercial bank on the restructuring of a multi-billion USD syndicated facility to one of the largest lithium producers in the world with investments and assets located in London, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China.
  • ICBC (Asia) as senior secured lender and PwC as joint and several receivers on the receivership sale of the Kimberley Hotel (a four star hotel located in Hong Kong) and its associated business in Hong Kong. 
  • Steering committee of creditors on the restructuring and amendment of approximately USD500m of obligations of a high profile PRC conglomerate, which is holding a controlling interest in a company listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
  • A leading Chinese bank as one of the key creditors of the Suntech Power group in an onshore restructuring under domestic PRC law, an on-going offshore liquidation and a consensual restructuring in connection with the client’s exposures to the European subsidiaries of the group.

Published Work

  • Jane Jiang, Viola Jing, Joanne Lau and Ella Richards (2020), “Cross-border Restructuring Involving Assets in the PRC – Are Onshore Assets Still out of Reach?”, INSOL World First Quarter 2020
  • Richard Woodworth, Viola Jing and Alison Fok (2017) “Directors in the Twilight Zone – Hong Kong”, INSOL International

Recognition

Awards & accolades

Rising Star of the Year

IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards, 2020