Rita Hong is an associate in the Hong Kong office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Corporate Department.

She advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and other general corporate and commercial matters.

Rita’s experience includes advising:

  • BW Industrial Development Joint Stock Company, a leading logistics and industrial real estate platform in Vietnam, on its equity fundraising round that was led by ESR and other investors
  • TPG on the sale of all its shares in Singapore Life Holdings Pte Ltd (Singlife), to one of Singlife’s substantial shareholders, Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
  • SATS Ltd on its acquisition of Worldwide Flight Services, the world’s largest air cargo handling firm, from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P 
  • Princeton Digital Group, a Pan-Asia data center company on its US$350 million late-stage venture capital investment from Mubadala Investment Company, Warburg Pincus, and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
  • Warburg Pincus on its strategic merger of two portfolio companies, D&J China and New Ease China, into DNE Group as the leading new economy infrastructure platform in China
  • DNE Group on its US$1.5 billion equity raise from Partners Group, StepStone and other investors
  • A large Asia-headquartered real estate fund on its formation of a private trust with another sponsor and the SGD313.5 million acquisition of five industrial facilities in Singapore from the SGX-listed ESR-Logos REIT, with such trust and the acquired assets being managed by a joint venture set up by the same two sponsors
  • Pearl Holding III Limited, a sponsor-backed manufacturer and distributor of precision plastic injection moulds, in its restructuring of US$175 million senior secured notes due 2022 through a Cayman scheme of arrangement in conjunction with a refinancing of its senior secured revolving credit facility
  • Warburg Pincus on its US$700 million Series A preferred share and Series B preferred share financing for JD Property Group Corporation, a subsidiary of JD.com and the infrastructure asset management and integrated service platform within the JD group
  • Tencent on its US$1.38 billion take-private of the HKSE-listed Leyou Technologies, an international game development and distribution company, by way of a scheme of arrangement
  • A consortium comprising TPG, Singapore Life (SingLife), Sumitomo Life Insurance Company, and others on a transaction to combine SingLife with Aviva Singapore. Valuing the combined Singlife and Aviva Singapore entities at SGD3.2 billion, the deal marks one of the largest in the insurance sector in Southeast Asia and the largest in Singapore
  • Fulu Holdings, China’s largest third-party virtual service provider, on its US$115 million IPO of shares on the Main Board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • The underwriters in Bank of Guizhou Co., Ltd’s HK$5.46 billion initial public offering of H Shares listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
  • The underwriters in Alphamab Oncology's HK$1.8 billion initial public offering of shares listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong

Bar Qualification

  • Hong Kong (Solicitor)

Education

  • LLB, The University of Sydney
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), The University of Sydney

Languages Spoken

  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • English