Mr. Lin is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department, practicing in the Hong Kong office. His practice focuses on public and private corporate finance transactions, including initial public offerings, convertible and high-yield debt offerings and private equity investments, and mergers and acquisitions. He has worked on some of the most significant capital markets transactions in Asia. He advised China Merchants Bank on its $2.66 billion HKSE listing; Air China on its privatization and $1.24 billion HKSE/LSE listing; and the underwriters in the privatization and NYSE/HKSE listing of Aluminum Corporation of China. Mr. Lin has also worked on several Nasdaq IPOs, including the $124 million listing of Baidu.com and the $468 million listing of Himax Technologies. He has extensive experience in high-yield debt offerings, including the $400 million offering by Agile Property, $100 million debt offering by China Orienwise and the $580 million offering in connection with the management buyout of Asia Aluminum. Mr. Lin also advised AU Optronics and Quanta Display in their merger and the Kingdom of Thailand and Bank of Thailand in connection with the proposed $1 billion sale of Bangkok Metropolitan Bank to HSBC. He regularly provides U.S. law advice to a number of high-technology companies, including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, AU Optronics, Himax Technologies, Inotera Memories, Nanya Technology and the Quanta Computers Group.

He joined Davis Polk in 1998 and became a partner in 2007.

Mr. Lin graduated, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard University in 1991 and in 1998 received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He also received his M. Phil. and D. Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University in 1993 and 1996, respectively, where he was a Rotary Foundation Scholar. He is admitted to the bar of New York. He is fluent in Mandarin and Taiwanese.