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Viola Jing

Partner

Hong Kong

Jing Viola
Viola Jing

Partner

Hong Kong

Viola is a restructuring and insolvency expert who advises clients across various industries and regions on how to navigate complex and challenging financial situations.

She has extensive experience in representing debtors, creditors, committees and insolvency practitioners in all stages of restructuring and insolvency processes, with a focus on cross-border cases involving PRC elements. She regularly leads cross-office, multi-practice teams to advise on complex, cross-border restructuring matters and has a strong track record in representing steering committees of creditors on restructuring, refinancing and/or enforcement options in regard to distressed Chinese real estate developers. Viola was voted Rising Star of the Year at the 2020 IFLR Asia Pacific Awards. She is named as the Restructuring and Insolvency Lawyer of the Year by the Women in Business Law Awards Asia 2022, a Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2021, and is one of three finalists for the IWIRC’s Women of the Year in Restructuring Award (Asia) 2021.
 

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Experience highlights

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