Patricia Lin Patricia Lin

Ms. Patricia Lin is a senior counselor at Lee and Li. Her practice focuses on banking, securities, capital market, international corporate finance, financings (including syndicated financing, structured financing and aircraft/ship financing) and mergers & acquisitions. Ms. Lin has assisted many international capital market transactions, including issuance of global depositary receipts, American depositary receipts, Taiwan Depositary Receipts, Euro-convertible bonds and Euro-exchangeable bonds and has successfully helped Want Want Holding listed in Hong Kong and helped foreign issuers to list the Taiwan Depositary Receipts and shares in Taiwan. Since 2007, she has assisted Deutsche Bank to successfully launch the first USD-denominated Formosa Bonds and RMB-denominated Formosa Bonds in Taiwan. She has subsequent helped PRC banks and lots of foreign banks/corporate entities issue Formosa Bonds in Taiwan.

Ms. Lin is also an expert in merger & acquisition transactions and has been involved in M&A transaction in both general industries and highly regulated industries (such as financial industries and telecom industries). She has advised several local banks/financial holding companies/securities firms and foreign private equity funds/investors in connection with the proposed acquisition between the acquirer and local financial holding companies and banks (such as Cosmos Bank being invested by GE Capital, Soro's investment in Taishin Financial Holding, Morgan Stanley's investment in Chinatrust Financial Holding and E.Sun Financial Holding and IBT's consolidation into Sinopac Financial Holding Company). She also advised the Taiwan telecom company for the first Mainland China company (China Mobile)'s investment and advised Forepi for the first PRC investment (San'an) and strategic alliance in LED industry. She recently advised Google on the transfer by HTC to Google of a portion of its Taiwan smartphone team and the acquisition by Google of certain related assets and a wholly-owned subsidiary of HTC.

Moreover, Ms. Lin is an expert in aircraft/ship financing. She has assisted for more than a decade international banks and local airlines in connection with the financing with respect to lease, sale and lease back, conditional sale and other structured financing.

Ms. Lin received her Bachelor of Law degree in 1993 from National Cheng-Chi University and a Master of Laws degree in 1995 from Boston University. Ms. Lin is a member of the New York State Bar Association.