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Jeffrey H. Chen

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Jeffrey H. Chen

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"Jeffrey Chen has unrivalled structured credit expertise and works with great collaboration and flexibility." - Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025

"Jeffrey Chen is one of the most experienced lawyers in Asian securitisation and structured credit." - Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023

"He is able to contextualize his structuring expertise to local and cross-border regulatory environments and business practices." - Chambers Greater China 2023

"Jeffrey Chen has unrivalled structured credit expertise and works with great collaboration and flexibility." - Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025

"Jeffrey Chen is one of the most experienced lawyers in Asian securitisation and structured credit." - Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023

"He is able to contextualize his structuring expertise to local and cross-border regulatory environments and business practices." - Chambers Greater China 2023

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Jeff Chen heads the structured finance practice at Dentons Hong Kong LLP, which is ranked Band 2 by Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2025, with pan-Asia coverage on cross-border transactions.

Jeff has over 20 years' experience in Asia as a legal practitioner in all areas of fixed income, including securitization, structured notes, derivatives, private structured debt, distressed debt, and project finance.

Jeff has enjoyed prominent league table rankings throughout his career:

Leading lawyer (Band 3) in Capital Markets: Securitisation and Derivatives & Structured Products in the 2025 Chambers & Partners Greater China Guide
Leading Partner in Structured Finance and Securitisation in the 2025 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide
Highly regarded lawyer in Capital markets : Structured finance and securitization in the 2024 IFLR1000 Asia Pacific Guide
Winner for Fixed Income Lawyer of the Year in China chosen by Leaders in Law 2024/2025 Global Awards
Acritas Star - independently rated lawyer in Thomson Reuters 2021 survey of global senior in-house counsels
Lead lawyer on IFLR 2020 Structured Finance and Securitisation Deal of the Year (with the same nomination on another deal in 2021)
Leading lawyer in the 2008 IFLR Global Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance and Securitization Lawyers

Jeff received his JD from The George Washington University Law School and his MA and BA degrees from The University of Michigan. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia and is a licensed solicitor in Hong Kong. He serves on the Professional Advisory Board of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Experience

Lending Ark Capital: Structuring, negotiation, and documentation on behalf of the client as sole investor on its first-ever cross-border asset-backed transaction out of the Philippines.
Lending Ark Capital: Negotiation and documentation on behalf of the client as sole investor of a mezzanine tranche carved out of a pre-existing bond facility backed by multiple categories of Hong Kong consumer debt receivables.
Lending Ark Capital: Structuring, negotiation, and preparation of all documentation for the first-ever cross-border fintech securitization out of Indonesia.
Tahan Capital Management: Structuring, negotiation, and preparation of all documentation on an extension followed by a restructuring of an asset-backed note facility on trade receivables out of Indonesia.
CLSA/CITIC: Structuring, negotiation, and preparation of all documentation for a cross-border structured loan to a Vietnamese finance company secured by a revolving pool of consumer loans.
CLSA/CITIC: Structuring and negotiation of international documentation for multiple series of cross-border "covered bonds" issued by a Korean fintech company.
Carlyle Asia Structured Credit Opportunities Fund: Structuring, negotiation and preparation of all documentation for a cross-border "covered bond" issued by a Laotian commercial bank secured by a pool of auto loans denominated in Laotian Kip and USD.
Carlyle Asia Structured Credit Opportunities Fund: Structuring, negotiation and preparation of all documentation for a cross-border "covered bond" issued by a Korean consumer finance company purchased solely by Carlyle and then "tranched out" to another offshore senior investor, effectively leaving Carlyle with a "mezzanine" credit exposure to the portfolio pool securing the bond
GE Capital Corporation: Preparation of all master factoring and servicing documentation for use by GE Capital's newly-established factoring company in PRC.
GE Capital Corporation: Documentation and negotiation of multiple transactions in PRC on behalf of GE Capital as arranger for direct purchases by PRC banks of trade receivables generated by General Electric entities in China (outside of GE Capital's PRC factoring program).
GE Capital Corporation: Management of several pan-Asian securitization surveys relating to the financing of commercial trade receivables in 18 Asian jurisdictions where General Electric entities have operations.
International Finance Corporation / Altus Capital Corporation - joint venture: Acted as "deal counsel" in the preparation of all documentation relating to the establishment of a pan-Asian acquisition and servicing platform for non-performing loans (NPLs) under the IFC's "distressed assets recovery program" (DARP) in conjunction with Altus, who is the Asia partner for IFC under DARP.
International Finance Corporation: Documentation and negotiation of a global supply chain financing program involving Asian sellers in multiple emerging market jurisdictions and multiple U.S. buyers.
Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation: Documentation and negotiation of several US$1 billion acquisitions by HKMC, on a bilateral "buy-and-hold" basis, of Korea residential mortgage loan portfolios in the form of cross-border RMBS originated by Standard Chartered Korea First Bank and Shinhan Bank.
Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation / Cagamas Berhad - joint venture: Preparation of all master documentation for a residential mortgage guarantee program in Malaysia featuring both (i) a conventional credit guarantee scheme and (ii) an Islamic kafalah/wakalah scheme.
Ambac Assurance Corporation: Representation of Ambac as monoline guarantor on all its wrapped Asian cross-border securitizations including - Korea Deposit Insurance Company ABS, Samsung Life RMBS (awarded IFLR 2002 Securitisation Deal of the Year), Korea First Bank RMBS, Adelaide Bank RMBS and Hsinchu International Bank RMBS.
Bank of New York: Representation of BONY as trustee on the IndoCoal Exports (Cayman) Limited whole-business securitization (awarded IFLR 2006 Asian Awards Securitisation Deal of the Year).
Standard & Poor's: Representation of S&P on the "first-ever" cross-border securitizations out of Taiwan - (i) Cosmos credit card ABS and (ii) Jih Sun International Bank auto ABS (nominated IFLR 2004 Securitisation Deal of the Year).
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund (MSREF): Representation of MSREF in its role as special servicer in the purchase by an international consortium led by MSREF of PRC non-performing loans from Huarong Asset Management.
Lehman Brothers: Represented the court-appointed liquidators (individuals at KPMG) of the five insolvent Lehman entities in Hong Kong on the close-out, valuation and workout of intra-group derivatives (both standalone and embedded) between the Hong Kong Lehman estates and the other Lehman estates in the world (including U.S. Chapter 11 and UK administration).
Lehman Brothers: Represented Hong Kong distributors of "minibonds" on filing proofs of claim and bankruptcy litigation against the Lehman debtors in U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings and Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in UK administration proceedings.

Insights

"Agnosticism in Pan-Asia Structured Finance," The Journal of Structured Finance, Spring 2019
"Foreign, Cross-Border, Privately-Negotiated Acquisitions and Dispositions of China's Non-Performing Loans," The Journal of Structured Finance, Fall 2016
"Chinese RMBS - Challenges and Solutions," International Financial Law Review, May 2016
"Securitization in China: Overview and Issues," The Journal of Structured Finance, Spring 2015
"The Volcker Rule's Impact on Foreign Banking Organizations," Banking Today, Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, May/June 2014
"Extra-Territorial Impact of The US Dodd-Frank Act," ASEAN Bankers Association, September 2012
"The Hong Kong Chapter," The PLC Cross-Border Finance Handbook: Securitisation 2010/2011
"HK Bankruptcy Swap Carve-Outs Too Narrow," Derivatives Week, November 15, 2010
"Credit Default Swaps - Are They Contracts of Insurance?," Journal of The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, Issue No.44, Jan–Feb 2009
"Hong Kong," The International Comparative Legal Guide to Securitisation, Chapter 22, 2007
"Case Study on Korean Cross-Border RMBS: The KFB3 Securitization," The Journal of Structured Finance, Spring, 2005
"SEC Adopts Final Rules for Asset-Backed Securities," selected as feature in Martindale-Hubbell's Counsel to Counsel Securities Alert & International Securitization & Finance Report, March 31 and April 15, 2005
"Record Breaking Cross-Border RMBS Closes in Korea: Deal Size and Length Illustrate Strength of the Market," International Securitization and Structured Finance Report, 2004
"SEC Proposes New Rules for Asset-Backed Securities,” Jones Day publication, May 2004
"The Korean Securitisation Market," Asia Legal Business, November 2003
"Taiwan Puts Securitization Framework in Place," International Financial Law Review, 2002
"Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000," Jones Day publication, April 2001

Activities and Affiliations

Presentations

"Anatomy of structured products," Dentons Hong Kong Webinar, May 2023 and September 2020
Panelist, "The Opportunity and Demand of Foreign Funds Entering Chinese Special Asset Investment Market", The 4th China International NPL Investment and Development Forum: Shenzhen, April 2018
Panelist, "Restructuring Approach of Chinese Distressed Corporate & Discussion of Cross-Border Bankruptcy Mechanism", The 3rd Annual China NPL Investment & Distressed Corporate Restructuring Forum: Shanghai, June 2017
Panelist, "NPL Investment Opportunities", The 2nd China International NPL Investment and Development Forum: Hong Kong, September 2016
Panelist, "Global RMBS Comparison", China Securitization Forum 2016 Annual Conference: Beijing, April 2016
Presenter, "China Securitization - Overview and Issues.", US Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) and IMN: "ABS West" Las Vegas, February 2015
ISDA Over-the-Counter Derivatives Conferences: Beijing, September 2014; Taipei, February 2014; Singapore, January 2014; Beijing, September 2013; Singapore, July 2013; Seoul, July 2013; Sydney, May 2013; Hong Kong, March 2013; Singapore, February 2013; Tokyo, October 2012; Singapore, October 2012; Beijing, September 2012; Shanghai, June 2012; Singapore, May 2012; Taipei, April 2012; Seoul, March 2012; Hong Kong, February 2012; Shanghai, June 2011; Taipei, May 2011; Seoul, March 2011; Singapore, January 2011; Hong Kong, October 2010
ISDA Asia Regional Conferences: Sydney/Singapore/Tokyo, October 2014; Hong Kong, October 2011; Hong Kong, October 2010
ISDA 2011 Asia Pacific Regulators Summit, Bangkok, May 2011
ISDA Master Agreements and CSA Conferences: Hong Kong, June 2019; Hong Kong, June 2018; Hong Kong, June 2016; Hong Kong, June 2015; Singapore, August 2014; Hong Kong, July 2014; Hong Kong, June 2013; Hong Kong, July 2012; Hong Kong, September 2010; Beijing, August 2010 (in Mandarin); Shanghai, June 2010 (in Mandarin); Taipei, June 2010 (in Mandarin); Seoul, March 2010
ISDA/Markit Collaboration on Dodd-Frank Protocol and Relevance to Asia, webinar, July 2012
30th IOMA, The WFE Derivatives Conference, Busan, May 2013
IMN securitization conferences: Beijing, November 2008; Beijing, November 2007; Macau, April 2007; Hong Kong, June 2006; Hong Kong, May 2005; Seoul, September 2004; Barcelona, June 2004; Seoul, September 2003
Euromoney/Terrapin/Securitisation World conferences: Beijing, March 2010; Seoul, March 2008; Singapore, December 2006; Singapore, November 2005; Hong Kong, November 2004
INSTO securitization conferences: Sydney, November 2005; Sydney, May 2005; Sydney, November 2004

Memberships

Co-Chair, Committee on NPL Securitization, China Securitization Forum
Asia-Pacific Legal and Regulatory Committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
Professional Advisory Board, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
Member, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

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