Chris Flood

International Partner*

Practice Description

Chris Flood has broad experience advising both Chinese and international clients on cross-border corporate transactions, with an emphasis on public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic investments, private equity, financings and restructuring transactions.

He has been based in China since 2005. Prior to joining Chadbourne & Parke LLP in 2010, he was most recently a member of Shearman & Sterling LLP’s mergers and acquisitions group. Before moving to China, he practiced corporate law for several years in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott LLP.

^{*Chadbourne & Parke International, LLP is a partnership affiliated with Chadbourne & Parke LLP}

Representative Matters

• China Netcom on its $24 billion acquisition by China Unicom.
• Sina Corporation in its proposed $1.3 billion acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Focus Media.
• China Minsheng Banking Corporation in its strategic investment in California-based UCBH Holdings, Inc.
• Management in its proposed $5.2 billion buyout, with The Carlyle Group, of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering.
• Huawei in matters relating to its joint venture with 3Com Corporation.
• E-Ton Solar Tech in its acquisition of California-based Adema Technologies.
• A subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in its $4.2 billion acquisition of PetroKazakhstan Inc. and in its sale of a minority interest in PetroKazakhstan to JSC KazMunaiGas.
• A subsidiary of CNPC in its $573 million joint acquisition (with ONGC Videsh) of Petro-Canada's Syrian assets.
• CNOOC Limited in its $2.27 billion acquisition of a 45% interest in a Nigerian offshore exploration and development license.
• Private equity fund sponsors in an acquisition of mining assets in South-East Asia, an investment in a China-based aluminum processor and in the acquisition of a majority interest in a Taipei-based commercial bank.

Publications