Portia Ku is a partner in O’Melveny’s Shanghai and Silicon Valley offices and a member of the Transactions Department. Her practice focuses on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings.

Illustrative Professional Experience

IPO Experience (companies):

Represented eHi Car Services (NYSE: EHIC) in its US$120 million US IPO
Represented Montage Technology Group Limited (NASDAQ: MONT) in its US$81.7 million US IPO
Represented China Kanghui Holdings (NYSE: KH) in its US$78.7 million US IPO
Represented iSoftStone Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: ISS) in its US$162 million US IPO
Represented 7 Days Group Holdings (NYSE: SVN) in its US$127.8 million US IPO
Represented Giant Interactive Group Inc. (NYSE: GA) in its US$1.02 billion US IPO
Represented WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX) in its US$212 million US IPO
Represented Acorn International, Inc. (NYSE: ATV) in its US$119.4 million US IPO
Represented Mindray Medical International Limited (NYSE: MR) in its US$320 million US IPO
Represented Christine International Holdings Ltd. (1210.HK) in its HK$400 million HK IPO
Represented LifeTech Scientific Corporation (8122.HK) in its HK$283 million IPO on the Growth Enterprise Market of the HKEX
Represented Besunyen Holdings Company Limited (0926.HK) in its HK$1.3 billion HK IPO


IPO Experience (underwriters):

Represented Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank in US$174 million US IPO of Tudou Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: TUDO)
Represented Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and CICC in US$132 million US IPO of Concord Medical Services Holdings (NYSE: CCM)
Represented Credit Suisse and Citigroup in US$73 million US IPO of Chemspec International Limited (NYSE: CPC)
Represented Merrill Lynch in US$108 million US IPO of China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: CSUN)
Represented the underwriters in the IPO of CNOOC
Represented the underwriters in the IPO of Comtech
Represented the underwriters in the IPO of TravelSky Technology
Represented the underwriters in the IPO of Sohu.com


Mergers & Acquisitions:

Represented Xitogen Technologies in its sale to Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR)
Represented China Hydroelectric Corporation (NYSE: CHC) in US$190 million buyout by controlling shareholder
Represented Giant Interactive Group Inc. (NYSE: GA) in US$3 billion going private transaction
Represented China Kanghui in its US$816 million acquisition by Medtronic
Represented LifeTech in a series of strategic investment transactions with Medtronic, including the sale of HK$2.18 billion of convertible notes to Medtronic
Represented a shareholder group of China Hydroelectic Corporation in a cross-border proxy contest to remove a majority of the members of CHC's board of directors and replace them with directors nominated by the shareholder group. The proxy contest culminated in the shareholder group's proposals passing on all counts, followed by CHC and its management agreeing to settle on terms favorable to the shareholder group