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(Chloe) Xi Chen

Mobile: +6597322486 Email Address: [email protected]

Personal Information:

•Gender: Female

•Birthday of born: 30/12/1987

•Nationality: Chinese

Legal Education:

Jun 2012 Professional Legal Qualification in China

Mar 2015 Professional Legal Qualification in UK

Sep 2010 - Sep 2011 King’s College, London

Master of Law (LLM)-Merit

•Specializing in international financial law

•International financial markets covering syndicated loans, international bonds, convertibles and

warrants

•International securitization

•Derivatives and credit derivatives with full coverage of ISDA and CSA documentation

Sep 2006 - Jul 2010 Zhengzhou University

Bachelor in Law Degree-with overall marks of 85%

•Specializing in commercial law, economics law, company law, and international law

Transactional Experience:

Aug 2014- until now

ISDA Negotiator at Legal documentation team at Credit Suisse

•Preparing, reviewing, negotiating draft agreements with a broad range of counterparty types

incorporated in APAC and globally in accordance with global templates, processes and regional

jurisdictional guidelines;

•Reviewing constitutional documents and performing due diligence reviews for APAC counterparties

and reviewing Mandarin documents for PRC and Taiwanese counterparties;

•Drafting, reviewing and negotiating the NAFMII agreements in Mandarin with PRC counterparties;

•Providing expert consultative services to the bank’s internal stakeholders and counterparties on

processes and documentation matters;

•Preparing and distributing Legal Documentation Execution (“LDE”) notifications for master

agreements, amendments and credit support documents;

•Reviewing agreement terms that have been input into Framesoft by the team in Pune;

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•Reviewing legal queries relating to account opening documentation in Singapore, Philippines,

Malaysia and Indonesia and addressing queries from Reference Data and Pune;

•Sourcing missing documentation by reaching out to global GC colleagues, obtaining originals from

various archive locations and liaising with counterparties as necessary;

•Updating our various SharePoints, systems and spreadsheets; and

•Assisting with various projects and remediations including LEP, FATCA, EMIR, ATE etc.

Jun 2012-Dec 2013

Paralegal in Financial Industry Group (Structured Finance Team) at Reed Smith LLP in UK

Feb 2014-Aug 2014

Paralegal in Business & Finance Group at Reed Smith LLP in Singapore

Extensively involved in a numerous transactions relating to securitization debt capital markets and

derivatives. Also, have been an active member of the Social Impact Finance Group. Recently, involved

in several matters relating to commodities transactions

Derivatives

• Worked on several derivatives transactions, including as part of the team (acting on behalf of the

buyer) providing Hedging Due Diligence Report in relation to loans sale (including Project Chamonix

and Project River).

-reviewed and prepared of transaction documents and swap documents

-assisted with drafting derivatives documents (including ISDA Master Agreement, Credit Support

Annex (CSA), GMRA/ISMA, MRA, and GMSLA/ISLA)

-followed up internally and with counterparties to gather and incorporate comments and information

-monitored various swap transactions and updated tracker sheet

-assisted with preparing Hedging Due Diligence Report

-assisted with providing internal legal advice on relevant legal issues

-coordinated closing on various derivatives transactions

Issuer Related Transactions

•Was part of the team acting on behalf of Wilmington Trust and Capita (as the issuer) in relation to

more than 70 securitization transactions (involving CMBS, RMBS, NPL and ABS). Was responsible for

maintaining records and checklists for the purpose of monitoring rating triggers and a number of

financial triggers in the documents relating to various parties (in particular liquidity and swap

providers, account bank and guaranteed investment contracts).

-assisted with building ‘Resolution Spread Sheet’ and monitoring transactions by undertaking review of

more than 70 securitization transaction documents (including ISDA Master Agreement, Credit Support

Annex (CSA), and Swap Confirmations)

-coordinated and followed up with Issuer and different transaction parties to address various queries

during the preparation of ‘Resolution Spread Sheet’

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-assisted with research of various rating agencies criteria and methodologies and their impact on the

reviewed structures

•Worked on various restructurings related to securitizations (including Windermere VII, X, XIV, and

Southern Pacific Securities 05-1) following by the Lehman bankruptcies.

-assisted with submission of claims (including Claim Portal Submission and Creditor Portal Submission)

on behalf of the issuer

-coordinated and followed up with the issuer and other parties

-assisted with providing internal legal advice on relevant legal issues

•Acted on behalf of 9 issuers from Southern Pacific Securities and Southern Pacific Financing in relation

to transaction documents amendments following the downgrade of various of counterparties (in

particular liquidity, account bank and guaranteed investment contracts).

-drafted Amendment Deed and Notice to Noteholders

-coordinated and followed up with the Issuer and other parties relating to negotiation and comments

-prepared for Noteholders Meeting (including drafting all relevant meeting documents)

Debt Capital Markets

•Acted for African Bank in relation to its US$2,000,000,000 EMTN Programme and US$6,000,000,000

MTN programme.

-assisted with drafting and reviewing transaction documents (including Base Prospectus)

-coordinated the listing process on debt/equity capital markets transactions

Trustee Related Transaction

•Represented US Bank and Elavon in relation to a £60,000,000 index-linked solar securitization.

-assisted with reviewing issuer level and borrower level transaction documents, disclaimers,

representation letters, and other ancillary documents

-coordinated and followed up among different transaction parties

Social Impact Finance

•Acted on behalf of GAVI and Instiglio in relation to Microfinance and Social Impact Bonds.

-assisted with drafting engagement letter, Guarantee Agreement, and Facility Agreement

-reviewed relevant documents

•Organized and coordinated with Social Impact Finance Series Forum: Co-Create impact between UK

and China in Microfinance (29/07/13) which included China International Center For Economic And

Technical Exchanges (CICETE) and a various UK P2P Companies and microfinance financial

institutions, which bridged the communication of Microfinance between UK and China.

Commodities transactions

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• Acted on behalf of Merrill Lynch International as the buyer in relation to a metal sale and purchase

transaction.

-assisted with providing PRC law advice in relation to enforceability of documents, title of goods,

relevant customs procedures and formalities

• Acted on behalf of a Brazil company as the seller in relation to arranging a guarantee from a

Chinese buyer

-assisted with providing PRC law advice in relation to SAFE Regulations, procedures and requirements

of a guarantee, and recognition/execution of foreign judgments and arbitration awards

Jan 2012- Apr 2012

Paralegal in Banking and Finance Group (Derivatives Team) at Macfarlanes LLP in UK

Was involved in several transactions, including GS Map, Lehman Brothers Claims, Permal Fund Project,

Falcon Edge Project, P JAE Opportunities Ltd Project, Nexar Short Bias Trading limited-Newedge Project,

and Morgan Stanley-Egerton project.

•Reviewed and prepared of transaction documents and swap documents

•Assisted with drafting derivatives documents (including ISDA Master Agreement, Credit Support

Annex (CSA), GMRA/ISMA, MRA, and GMSLA/ISLA)

•Followed up internally and with counterparties to gather and incorporate comments and information

•Monitored various swap transactions and updated tracker sheet

•Assisted with providing internal legal advice to the business on relevant legal issues

•Coordinated closing on various derivatives transactions

•Built and managed the database of derivatives precedents and templates

•Assisted with CDD (Customer due diligence)

Dec 2009 – Jan 2012

Apprentice Lawyer in Shanzhuang Law firm in China

•Assisted with the preparation of documentation (Domestic Civil/Criminal Law)

•Drafted legal instruments (Domestic Civil/Criminal Law)

•Contacted with clients for relevant documentation (Domestic Civil/Criminal Law)

Referees:

Christopher Charles Lawrence (Partner of Macfarlanes LLP)

•Email Address: [email protected]

•Mobile Number: +44 (0) 7747050946

Tamara Box (Co-chair of the Financial Industry Group of Reed Smith LLP)


•Telephone Number: +44 (0)20 3116 3658

Ranajoy Basu (Partner of Reed Smith LLP)

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•Telephone Number: +44 (0) 20 3116 2827

Language and Skill:

Fluent in English (written and spoken)

• Mandarin (Native Speaker)

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Hobbies:

• Painting

• Yoga

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