Ma, Yan

Yan Ma

Associate

yan.ma@lw.com
    Ma, Yan

    Yan Ma

    Associate

    yan.ma@lw.com

    Profile

    Yan Ma is an associate in the Finance Department in the Frankfurt office.

    Yan advises clients on a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions. Particularly, she represents financial institutions, private equity funds, and corporate borrowers in:

    • Acquisition finance
    • Real estate finance
    • Project finance
    • Asset-based finance

    Before joining Latham, Yan spent five years in the finance department of a magic circle law firm, gaining further experience through her secondment at KfW in 2022.

    She is admitted to practice law in Germany as Rechtsanwältin, and obtained a Legal Profession Qualification Certificate of the People’s Republic of China.

    Experience

    Yan’s experience includes advising:

    • IFCO on its refinancing (term loan B of €2.4 billion and RCF of €400 million)
    • Deutsche Bank on the acquisition of approximately €1.67 billion loans from the aircraft financing portfolio of Norddeutsche Landesbank*
    • 3i Infrastructure on the acquisition of 60% in DNS:NET Group*
    • Banking consortium on the asset refinancing by Touax Rail Limited*
    • Banking consortium on the financing of the Altiplano-La Puna solar project in the province of Salta, Argentina*
    • KfW on the implementation of the corona programme “direct investments for syndicated financing”*
    • Banking consortium on a highway project in Germany*
    • Pacific Asset Management Co. Ltd. and Savills Investment Management on the acquisition of two Amazon logistic properties in Dortmund*
    • DWS on financing in connection with the acquisition of the Frankfurt premium property Marienturm*
    • Leading US investment banks on several financings of various international real estate portfolios*

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Rechtsanwältin (Germany)

    Education

    • Legal Profession Qualification Certificate of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Justice, China
    • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt
    • First German State Exam, Goethe University of Frankfurt

    Languages Spoken

    • German
    • English
    • Chinese (Mandarin)

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