Peter Lu

Peter has focused his practice on representing public and private companies in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, corporate governance, directors' duties, disputes in board and governance matters. He advises clients across a wide range of industries, including consumer, energy, infrastructure, transportation, financial institutions and professional services.

Peter's clients include Royal Charter organization, multinational companies and funds such as the British Standards Institution, Bank of China, UCF Group, Hisense International, China-Africa Cotton, China Telecom and China-Africa Development Fund.

• This British Standards Institution in its acquisition of Neville Clarke, a business process improvement company
• Qingdao Port International in its proposed investment in Africa
• China-Africa Investment Fund in its various investments in Africa
• Hisense in various matter in Africa and Europe
• Danone in its acquisition of Halayeb Company, a leading dairy and juice company in Egypt
• Japan UCC in its acquisition of United Coffee from Capvest for EUR 500 million
• Solvay in its disposal of certain assets in the UK
• Stemcor in its USD 2.24 billion restructuring and debt for equity swap with the banks
• Monarch Airlines in its restructuring and sale to Greybull Capital
• Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS) in its GBP 140 million acquisition of a 49.9% stake in the Airline Group Limited, which is a 41.9% shareholder in NATS Holdings Limited
• MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company in its sale of 35% of TIL to GIP for USD 1.929 billion
• China Dalian Wanda in its US$1.1 billion acquisition of central London development site One Nine Elms
• Arriva in Deutsche Bahn's recommended GBP 1.6 billion public takeover offer
• Blackstone in its acquisition of portfolios of industrial warehouses in the UK for GBP 600 million
• A leading energy company in its proposed sale of a minority stake to a Chinese investor
• A leading European transportation company in its proposed sale to a Chinese company
• A UK-listed company in its proposed acquisition of a Spanish chemical company
• China Development Bank, in its capacity as a major shareholder of Barclays plc, regarding Barclay's GBP 5.95 billion rights issue
• Zoopla plc in its UK Takeover Code Rule 9 Whitewash
• Tencent, a Chinese technology conglomerate, on its Series A investment into SenSat Ltd, a UK artificial intelligence company
• A Chinese investor, in its proposed acquisition of British Steel

• Law Society of England and Wales