He has extensive experience advising on complex cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures in the Asia-Pacific region, with a sector focus on technology, telecommunications and digital infrastructure.
He frequently advises on digital infrastructure projects including trans-Pacific and trans-Indian Ocean submarine telecommunications cable transactions, data centre projects, telecommunications tower transactions and related commercial agreements. He regularly advises on general corporate matters and the Hong Kong telco licensing regime.
He has acted as the lead technology counsel on milestone digital bond issuances in Hong Kong.
His experience also includes a secondment with Meta's APAC network infrastructure legal team.
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Sean’s selected experience includes advising:
- Axiata Group Berhad (“Axiata”) and Dialog Axiata Plc (“Dialog”) on Dialog’s acquisition of Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd from Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”) in an equity swap deal to create the largest telecoms business in Sri Lanka and the establishment of a new mobile telecoms joint venture in Sri Lanka between Axiata and Bharti
- CK Hutchison on the TMT aspect of its €10 billion sale of its portfolio of telecommunications tower assets in Europe to Cellnex
- Meta on its “most ambitious subsea cable project” - a subsea cable system reaching five major continents and spanning over 50,000km, making it the world’s longest subset cable system using the highest capacity technology available
- Meta on the establishment of its India terrestrial fiber network including a data center in India
- EdgePoint Infrastructure (a DigitalBridge-backed platform) on the corporate aspect of its US$750 million sale-and-leaseback acquisition of a portfolio of more than 4,200 telecommunications towers from PT Indostat Tbk
- Hyundai Motor Group on its US$4 billion joint venture with Aptiv PLC for the design, development and commercialisation of software technologies, services, systems, vehicle architecture and other related enabling offerings with respect to Level 4 and 5 autonomous driving
- HSBC as platform counsel in respect of its role as the platform provider to HKMA on the world’s first multi-currency digital bond offering issued by the Government of Hong Kong
- Walsin Lihwa Corporation on its joint venture with Danish company NKT HV Cables AB to manufacture offshore subsea power cables in Taiwan
- A Nasdaq-listed fintech brokerage on its trading platform license and services arrangements with the largest bank in Malaysia
- Thinxtra on its submission to OFCA for permission to establish an IoT business in Hong Kong and leading to Thinxtra being one of the first recipients of OFCA’s new Wireless IoT Licence
- Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012
- J.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011
- B.A., Political Science, Saint John's University, 2009