Trinh Hoang

Trinh Hoang

Partner
About

Trinh focuses her practice on general lending, digital asets financing, special situations financing, distressed debt, private credit and cross-border restructuring. Her experience spans complex transactions across multiple jurisdictions in Europe, Hong Kong, and various countries across Asia, including Vietnam where she is from.

Trinh represents investment banks, private credit funds, international sponsors, crypto lenders and corporate borrowers.

She is known for her collaborative approach, working closely with her clients to understand the commercial drivers affecting their businesses, enabling her to deliver tailored solutions that help to achieve their strategic objectives.

Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the High Court of Hong KongSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Advised a U.S. PE sponsor on its exit strategy in connection with its investments in PRC real estate and negotiations with its syndicated lenders.
  • Advised an international bank syndicate in connection with its syndicated facility to a borrower group and the group's asset disposal plans in the PRC.
  • Advised a major crypto exchange on its suite of financing documentation covering arrangements to lend and custodise digital assets and taking security over digital and non-digital assets in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Advised a sponsor in connection with a complex cross-border restructuring spanning Taiwan, Hong Kong and the BVI which involved multiple layers of capital including senior and mezzanine secured syndicated debt, unsecured notes and subordinated debt.
  • Advised a Vietnamese group in connection with an audit matter.
  • Advised the U.S. private credit lender to a manufacturing group in creditors’ voluntary liquidation with assets in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
  • Advised a bulge bracket PRC bank, holder of certain structured notes with economic exposure to the notes issued by Nuoxi Capital limited and guaranteed by Peking University Founder Group Company limited.
  • Advised a PRC insurance group in connection with its standstill arrangements with a listed PRC property developer undergoing a court-led financial restructuring.
  • Advised the lender on a structured loan facility for a Vietnamese financial services group which included both offshore and Vietnamese security.*
  • Advised the senior lending syndicate on the addition of a mezzanine term loan facility to a PRC property developer and intercreditor arrangements between the senior and mezzanine lenders.*
  • Advised the noteholders in connection with the restructuring of the noteholders’ interests in certain loan note instruments for a Korean fashion retail group.*
  • Advised the provisional liquidator in connection with the provisional liquidation of a Hong Kong cruise liner group, including conducting due diligence on the group and its financing arrangements, reviewing asset realisation opportunities and liaising with existing bank syndicates.*
  • Advised a high net worth individual on a margin loan collateralised by certain shareholding in a listed Indian company.*
  • Advised the lender on a term facility for a US fund in connection with its acquisition of a certain stake in a PRC finance leasing company which is supported by the right to put the target shares to its majority shareholder at an agreed rate of return.*
  • Advised the fund lender of a term loan facility for an established Chinese property developer for the purpose of refinancing of its existing financial debt and towards the development and renovation of its PRC properties. Subsequently worked on the back leverage financing arrangements for the same fund.*

 * Denotes experience prior to joining the firm.

Languages
  • English
  • Vietnamese
Education
  • King’s College London, B.A.

Publications and media

  • Big waves in restructuring: Sino Ocean plan sanctioned in England and Hong Kong, 28 February 2025
  • Evergrande commences 2023’s largest chapter 15 filing, 30 August 2023
  • Hong Kong chapter for the International Banking Review: The dichotomy of Hong Kong banking trends: A gloomy outlook or opportunity for growth, April 2024

Memberships and Affiliations

  • The Law Society of Hong Kong
  • The Law Society of England and Wales
  • IWIRC (Hong Kong)
  • INSOL International (Hong Kong)
 

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