Ken Poon

Strategic Partner

Ken was the Asia-Pacific Head of Capital Markets Origination at Citigroup which includes all ECM, DCM, Acquisition Financing, and Structured Financing activities in the region.

Ken has nearly 30 years of experience in Asian Capital Markets and has completed transactions in every active market across the region.

In 2014, Ken played a key role in advising on the NYSE listing of Alibaba which raised US$25 bn and is the second largest IPO in the world.

Ken’s landmark equity deal experience includes: AIA’s US$20.4bn IPO, Sands China’s US$2.5bn IPO, Global Logistics Property US$3bn IPO, China Railway Construction’s US$2.3bn IPO, Melco’s US$1.3bn Nasdaq IPO, Sun Hung Kai Property’s US$1bn equity placement, LG.Philips LCD’s US$2.2bn equity offering, Hynix’s US$2.2bn equity follow on offering, over US$1bn of secondary equity placements for Esprit, and REIT IPOs for GZI, Suntec, and Champion from PRC, Singapore, and Hong Kong respectively.

Ken has also advised on the structuring and distribution of a large number of equity-linked issuances which include: Exchangeable bond offerings for Hutchison into Vodafone raising over US$6bn, Korea Telecom's exchangeable bond offering for US$1.3bn, one of the first convertible offerings from a PRC company China Mobile raising US$690mm, Chartered Semiconductor’s US$575mm convertible issuance. Finally, he has pioneered the issuance of the first negative yield CBs in Asia for Quanta Computers in Taiwan.

Ken has advised Asian Governments on a number landmark privatizations including the US$1.3bn IPO of China Netcom, the US$7.377bn simultaneous placement of equity and convertibles for China Mobile, Temasek's US$1.5bn simultaneous equity and exchangeable bond offer into Singapore Telecom, US$1.6bn Privatization of Chungwha Telecom in Taiwan, and over US$2bn of TSMC ADR issuance for the Taiwan Government and Philips.

Ken is presently the Co-Sponsor, President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Summit Healthcare Acquisition Corp (Stock Code: SMIHU) which listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange in June 2021 raising US$230 million.

He holds a Bachelor in Commerce (Finance) from the University of British Columbia, and an Executive MBA Joint Degree between Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and Peking University Guanghua School of Management.