Capital Market
Victory′s professional team provides a full range of capital market services, including Equity and Debt Financing, Pre-IPO Financial Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Listed Company Investor Relations and Services.
Corporate Finance Advisory Services
Victory′s corporate finance team comprises professionals from diverse industry backgrounds and is experienced in formulating a wide range of corporate finance solutions to meet client requirements in the capital market.
PRIMARY/SECONDARY MARKET OFFERINGS ADVISORY
Victory can provide advisory services for primary/secondary market offerings focusing on financing efficiency, leveraging the established quality client base, excellent distribution capability, and securities financing services of Victory Securities, including margin financing and IPO financing.
  • Initial public offering (IPO)
  • Placing of shares
  • Rights issues / Open offer
  • Issue of convertibles securities, options or warrants
  • Margin financing
IPO FINANCIAL ADVISORY
Victory can provide advisory services for IPO with a focus on Pre-IPO project execution, particularly early stage IPO feasibility study and introduction of pre-IPO funding, which are essential to set a good foundation for a later successful IPO.
  • Health check with IPO feasibility study
  • Pre-IPO project execution
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS FINANCIAL ADVISORY
Victory can provide advisory services for mergers and acquisitions with a focus on deal completion and value creation of the transactions due to risk and compliance issues.
  • Takeover of listed companies and other transactions with Takeovers Code implications (e.g., general offer, whitewash waiver application, special deal)
  • Notifiable transactions and related transactions according to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (e.g., disclosable transaction, major transaction, very substantial acquisition, very substantial disposal, reverse takeover, connected transaction, etc.)
  • Due Diligence Review of Target
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING FINANCIAL ADVISORY
We are capable of providing advisory services for capital reorganization and business restructuring with focus on devising tailor-made solutions in response to specific client requirements.
  • Debt restructuring and capital reorganisation
  • Company reorganization and restructuring, including spin-off
  • Privatisation
  • Share incentive scheme, including employee share option scheme and share award scheme
  • Resumption of trading
Profiles

Daphne Shao

Managing Director
Global Capital Markets

Worked in several Chinese and foreign investment banks in Hong Kong, such as Morgan Stanley Huaxin Funds, Keywise Capital Management, Shenwan Hongyuan (Hong Kong), Central China International, etc. Daphne has many years of experience in the stock capital market and has participated in IPO, stock placement, and corporate financing projects. Daphne is experienced in different types of corporate financing business in various industries and experience in setting up trusts for the employee incentive program


Daphne is familiar with the operation of the Hong Kong capital market, including market promotion, non-transaction roadshow, management roadshow, underwriting group coordination, bookkeeping management, and stock allocation. Daphne has participated in IPO projects of Xiaomi Group (01810.HK), Haidilao (06862.HK), Shandong International (01697.HK) and SinoMab BioScience (03681.HK), HK China Bright Culture (01859.HK), Tu Yi Holding(01701.HK) with a scale of hundreds of millions of projects issued


Daphne holds a master′s degree in International Financial Analysis from Newcastle University, UK. She is director of Hong Kong LPF Association and fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Economists

Francis Chan

Managing Director
Corporate Finance Department

  • previously worked in the investment banking department of CITIC Securities International and the corporate finance and restructuring department of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
  • has more than 15 years of practical experience in corporate finance and investment banking
  • has participated in numerous IPOs and merger and acquisition transactions in Hong Kong, including A-then-H IPO, red chip listing, A+H rights issue, A+H new share placement, backdoor listing by reverse takeover as well as cross-border merger and acquisition transactions
  • graduated from the University of London, UK, with a BSc Banking and Finance degree and possess Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional qualification and CPA Australia membership
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