Liang (Alex) Tao

Primary Focus & Experience

With over a decade of experience, Alex's practice covers a wide range of international capital markets transactions, including high-yield, investment-grade and convertible debt financings and liability management transactions. Alex is also active with respect to US and Hong Kong initial public offerings and other equity offerings.

He regularly represents issuers, investment banks and other investors in the equity and debt capital markets space, including SEC-registered offerings, Hong Kong IPOs and Rule 144A/Regulation S debt offerings of both PRC and regional companies, advising across a wide variety of sectors, including technology, media and telecom, real estate, consumer products, energy and oil and gas.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ranked by Chambers as an “Up and Coming” lawyer for his work in High Yield Capital markets, Alex wins praise from clients who enthuse that, "He is immensely experienced in assisting Chinese issuers in their offshore capital markets transactions, he knows the market trends and conditions” and appreciate his ability “to quickly capture the essence of [our] enquiries during the negotiation stage and can quickly provide multiple options, as well as the pros and cons."  In addition to Chambers, Alex is also recognized as an elite lawyer in the 2019 A-List by the China Business Law Journal in the areas of debt and equity capital markets, M&A and general corporate.

Prior to joining Milbank, Alex was a partner at a “Magic Circle” firm and before that he practiced in the New York and Hong Kong offices of a leading US law firm.  

Alex is a native speaker of Mandarin and Shanghainese and is fluent in English.