Roger Lui
Partner
Hong Kong
Roger Lui
Partner
Hong Kong
Contact Details
Roger is a partner in our Banking department and has over 20 years’ experience advising financial institutions, credit funds, sponsors and corporates on a wide range of complex, high-profile and highly structured financing transactions across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Roger has a varied and extensive practice, having regularly advised on corporate lending, pre-IPO financing, equity-backed financing, structured and acquisition financing, real estate financing and project financing.
Over the years, Roger has advised on numerous significant, award-winning financing transactions involving market-first features, setting industry precedents.
Before settling in Hong Kong, Roger spent time in both of A&O’s London and Tokyo offices.
Being fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, Roger is recognised by clients for his knowledge of the markets across the region and the diversity of his practice.
Band 1 Leading Individual: Banking and Finance (International Firms), China
Chambers Asia Pacific 2021
Leading Individual: Banking and Finance, Hong Kong
Asia Pacific Legal 500 2021
“I would really single him out, he's terrific, a real gentleman. He can really calmly bring the deal together, he's the best I deal with.”
Chambers Asia Pacific 2019
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1999
Admitted as solicitor, Hong Kong, 2000
Academic
BA, The University of Sydney, 1993
BA (Juris), Oxford University, 1996
MA (Juris), Oxford University, 2001
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1999
Admitted as solicitor, Hong Kong, 2000
Academic
BA, The University of Sydney, 1993
BA (Juris), Oxford University, 1996
MA (Juris), Oxford University, 2001
News & insights
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Allen & Overy is advising digital bank Zopa on its latest round of fundraising. The bank, which was the world’s first peer-to-peer lender and is one of the UK’s newest digital banks, has raised…
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News: 14 OCTOBER 2021
Allen & Overy’s leveraged finance team has advised Brookfield Business Partners (Brookfield) on a c.EUR2.75 billion loan and high yield financing package comprising a EUR1.26bn sustainability-linked…
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News: 14 OCTOBER 2021
Allen & Overy advises Arion on first EUR300m covered bond issuance
Allen & Overy has advised Arion Bank hf. on its first issuance of a Euro denominated covered bond. Over a decade on from the financial crisis, the EUR300m issue represents the first time an Icelandic…
Read morePublished work
Lui. R, Silk. M, Tse. J, 2002, "Portfolio project financing - The Asian perspective", Project Finance International Asia Pacific Review Supplement
Lui. R, Thierne. C, Brown. T, 2005, "Nam Theun 2 Powers Ahead", Project Finance International Asia Pacific Review Supplement
