biography

Jack Tsang is a Partner in the Firm’s Global Corporate Group. He is an advisor to companies at different stages of their lifecycles, from Series A through to IPO, as well as founders, venture capital, private equity and strategic investors. In addition to English law governed UK and European corporate and technology transactions, he also has particular expertise in cross-border technology investments, M&A and venture capital deals.  He also advises on data privacy issues in the technology sector.

Jack’s experience spans the entire tech, digital, disruptive and innovation sectors and in recent years, he has developed a focus on Digital, HealthTech and, Life Sciences. He is particularly active in the UK’s Cambridge, Oxford and London “tech triangle”, and other key innovation ecosystems in the Middle East and Asia. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe), a Member of the Royal Society for Public Health  and is also a Licentiate of the Institute of Biomedical Science UK.

Earlier in his career, Jack worked at Slaughter and May where he gained experience in large-cap M&A, public takeovers, privatisations and capital markets, including advising...

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  • Representative Transactions

    Cross-border M&A

    • Spartan, the world’s leading endurance sports brand, in its investment in long-distance hiking event series HIGHLANDER and the formation of a strategic partnership.
    • PFSweb, Inc, a Nasdaq listed global commerce services company, on its internal reorganisation and subsequent sale of LiveArea, its global customer experience and commerce agency business unit, to Merkle, Inc. for a consideration of approximately US$250 million.
    • Asian consortium comprising numerous leading Chinese listed companies and institutional investors on its cash investment of £2.4 billion in Global Switch, the leading owner, operator and developer of large scale, carrier and cloud neutral data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
    • Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America on its investment into an Australian regulated entity with UK FCA regulated subsidiaries.
    • A NASDAQ listed company on its auction bid to acquire ETX Capital, a UK FCA regulated online trading platform company.

     

    Private equity and venture capital

    • Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund on its investment into Avolon, the international aircraft leasing group.
    • HAECO’s acquisition of TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc. based in the US, which created one of the world’s leading providers of aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul services.
    • Charlesbank Capital Partners on its acquisition of the IT infrastructure management operations of Acxiom Corporation.
    • Series A investment into Lendinvest, a UK online lender specialising in the property market.
    • Wuxi Weifu High-Technology Group on its US$30 million Series E investment into electric car technology firm Protean Holdings.
    • Vaccitech Limited, an Oxford University spin-out on its master collaboration agreement with CanSino Biologics Inc.
    • An Oxford University TMT sector spin-out on its potential collaboration with and investment from a leading Asian strategic investor.

     

  • Presentations & Teaching Experience

    Jack is regularly invited to speak at events and roundtables on technology and venture capital investments and cross-border transactions hosted by organisations such as the UK’s Department of International Trade and British High Commissions and Embassies internationally.

  • Publications
  • Recognitions

    Jack has worked on the teams that advised on the following award-winning deals:

    • The acquisition of Hong Kong’s Wing Hang Bank by Singapore’s Overaeas-Chinese Banking Corporation for a consideration of circa US$5 billion which won IFLR Asia Awards: M&A Deal of the Year and The American Lawyer’s Asia Legal Award: M&A Deal of the Year
    • IPO of the People’s Insurance Company of China which was the largest IPO in Hong Kong and the fourth largest IPO globally and which set a global record for the number of underwriters and which won IFLR Asia Awards: Equity Deal of the Year.
  • Affiliations
    • Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe), IAPP
    • Licentiate, Institute of Biomedical Science
    • Member, Royal Society for Public Health

 

 

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Credentials

Admissions

England & Wales

 

 

Education

Australian National University, LLM

University of Nottingham, LLB

Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe)

Prior Law Firm Experience

Slaughter and May

Simmons & Simmons

King & Wood Mallesons

 

Practice Areas