Education
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University of Oxford Saïd Business School and Faculty of Law, Law and Finance Graduate Programme (2010-2011)
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Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, LL.M., 1999
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Beijing University School of Law, LL.B., 1995
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Sichuan University, B.A., 1992
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Awards and Honors
- Rising Star, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (2003)
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Wendy Li focuses her practice primarily on counseling major international financial institutions, multinational businesses, major swap participants, funds, as well as energy, infrastructure and other firms active in capital markets, debt and project financings, derivatives trading and hedge and private equity funds.
Ms. Li represents issuers and underwriters in publicly and privately offered high-yield, trust preferred, convertible and exchangeable debt, equity, risk-linked and hybrid securities, as well as IPO and SPAC transactions. She counsels clients, including investment banks, on myriad derivatives-related matters.
She regularly represents clients before the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission and various federal and state banking regulators. Her expertise includes domestic and international bank regulatory mechanisms, and their impact on wholesale and retail banking, securities, trust and capital market operations. International banks opening branches, agencies, representative offices and brokerage subsidiaries in the U.S. have sought her counsel.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Li practiced corporate and securities law at the New York office of an international law firm. She is a native speaker of Mandarin.
Representative Matters
- Represented a leading U.S. life insurance company in a $20 billion 15-year preference plus variable annuity derivatives trade.
- Represented various leading U.S. banks in their syndicated and revolving credit facilities as well as bridge, mezzanine and senior credit facilities for various telecommunication companies, hedge funds and overseas real estate investment companies wholly owned by leading U.S. bank holding companies, with individual facility sizes up to $4.7 billion.
- Represented leading U.S. and European investment banks, as underwriters, in various secured notes exempted securities offerings up to $1.0 billion, with interest payment guaranteed by U.S. government agency.
- Represented various reinsurance SPVs sponsored by leading U.S. and European insurance companies in their 144A/Reg. S principal-at-risk or principal-protected variable rate notes offerings linked to certain typhoon, hurricane and/or earthquake events, with individual issuance sizes up to $1.0 billion.
- Represented various major U.S. and European investment banks in their total return swap negotiations in connection with risk-linked securities, with individual notional amounts up to $1.0 billion.
- Represented U.S. public utility companies in their $250 million - $350 million mortgage bond public offerings.
- Represented a U.S. subsidiary of a major Caribbean bank in its $500 million registered senior note offering.
- Represented various major U.S. financial services companies in their 144A/Reg. S $100 million floating rate subordinated deferrable interest debentures program, $350 million trust preferred, as well as up to 500 billion Venezuelan Bolivar zero coupon securities offerings.
- Represented a major asset management subsidiary of a leading U.S. financial services company in its $550 million 144A/Reg. S secured notes offering with innovative payment structure linked to realized tax abatement.
- Represented various public companies in their equity public offerings, including a $300 million tender offer, a spin-off and a £106.9 million cross-border acquisition.
- Represented various corporations and special purpose acquisition companies in their $300-$500 million initial public offerings.
- Represented a major European investment bank in a $21.2 million 5-year commodity put option sale and purchase of call option.
- Represented a leading U.S. investment bank in its up to $102 million securities swap forward trades between the bank and various Venezuelan financial institutions.
- Represented leading U.S. investment banks in their securities offerings of reverse exchangeable notes linked to common stock of NYSE Euronext and contingent protection securities linked to S&P 500 index, Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index and Nikkei 225 index.
- Represented various international financial institutions, as fund sponsors, in their fund private placements and registrations of stock-exchange listed offshore funds.
- Represented various Asian banks in their establishment of New York branches and provided regulatory advice.
- Advised EB-5 investment program participants on U.S. securities law matters.
Professional Affiliations:
- New York Bar and California Bar Associations
- Former Co-Chair of Lawyer Promoting Diversity Committee and Minority Involvement Committee, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Former Secretary, Dallas Asian American Bar Association
- Former President of Beijing University Alumni Association of Greater Dallas
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