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Edward Sun is a resident partner in our Beijing office who has been practicing law since 1995. Ed is a New York admitted and trained attorney with broad experience in China and the Asian markets generally. He specializes in M&A/private equity, capital markets and distressed debt transactions, and is listed in Chambers Asia as a leading private equity and capital markets lawyer.
At Milbank since 2002, Ed's more recent capital markets work includes representing Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in connection with the IPO of Tom Online, which was the first ever dual listing on Nasdaq and Hong Kong GEM, and representing Mandra Forestry, a PRC forestry company, in a complex high-yield bond offering that in 2006 earned Milbank ALB's China Debt Market Deal-of-the-Year Award.
In the M&A/private equity arena, Ed has regularly represented, in the past three years, Citadel, EQT, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, CCMP Capital Asia (formerly J.P. Morgan Partners), Farallon Capital, Lombard Capital, J.P. Morgan Chase and Warburg Pincus in private equity transactions in China. He was the senior non-partner on the Milbank team that represented China Construction Bank in the acquisition by Bank of America of a $5.8 billion equity stake in CCB, the single largest foreign investment in China's history.
Prior to joining Milbank, Ed was the chief counsel for the Non-Japan Asia branch of Goldman Sachs' $5.2 billion private equity fund. During that time, he worked on the Goldman Sachs-led $1.1 billion Series A investment in Shanghai Semiconductor International (SMIC) and on the Goldman Sachs-led initial equity financing for the former China Netcom, as well as numerous other private equity investments. Prior to serving as chief counsel to Goldman Asia's private equity operations, Ed was the senior counsel to Goldman Asian Special Situations Group working on groundbreaking NPL and other distressed asset acquisitions and securitizations, including the earliest transactions with the FRA in Thailand and KAMCO in Korea, which served as models for structuring and documenting subsequent distressed debt transactions throughout the region. Before leaving Goldman, Ed also helped this group pursue NPL transactions in China, including the first Huarong transaction, and to establish an asset servicing operation in the PRC. At Milbank, Ed has represented Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan in several China NPL deals.
Ed began his legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York where he worked on major project financings such as the FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) and Ras Laffan LNG financings. Ed moved to Hong Kong with Davis Polk in 1997 where his practice shifted to the capital markets with a focus on U.S. SEC registered and Rule 144A securities offerings.
Ed earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University. He is a native English speaker who is also fluent in Mandarin. | 