Tommy Chew

Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

London
United Kingdom
T :+44 (20) 74442904
London
United Kingdom
T :+44 (20) 74442904

Biography

Tommy Chew is a trilingual debt capital markets lawyer based in our London office. He is dual qualified in England and Wales and in Hong Kong.

Tommy acts regularly for investment banks, corporates and sovereign issuers on a spectrum of capital market transactions ranging from investment grade debt issuance, high yield notes offerings, regulatory capital raising, MTN note programmes to liability management exercises. His transaction experience spans across Europe, North America and Asia.  Tommy has also spent time as a secondee at the DCM legal department of a leading European investment bank.


Expérience professionnelle

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  • Hong Kong 2019
  • England and Wales 2021

MTN Programmes

Advised the arrangers and dealers in:

  • the establishment of the €1 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme of the Province of Province of Newfoundland & Labrador, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange
  • the update of the U.S.$30 billion Global Medium Term Note Programme of the Province of Alberta, including its transfer of listing venue to the London Stock Exchange 
  • the update of the U.S.$6 billion Euro Debt Issuance Programme of the Province of British Columbia, which is listed on Euro MTF
  • the update of the U.S.$20 billion Euro Note Programme of Bank of Montreal, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange
  • the update of the U.S.$20 billion Euro Note Programme of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange
  • the update of the U.S.$10 billion Euro Note Programme of National Bank of Canada, which is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
  • the update of the U.S.$30 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme of the Province of Québec, which is listed on Euro MTF 
  • the update of the U.S.$3 billion Multicurrency Medium Term Note Programme of Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad, which is listed on the SGX-ST*
  • the update of the U.S.$10 billion Global Medium Term Note Programme of Export-Import Bank of India, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and SGX-ST*

Syndicated Issuances

  • Advised BNPP, SocGen, UBS, Barclays and other underwriters on the issuance of €800 million senior notes by Bank of Montreal
  • Advised Barclays, SocGen, Natixis and other underwriters on the issuance of €2 billion floating rate notes by The Toronto-Dominion Bank
  • Advised BNPP, Barclays, NatWest and other underwriters on the issuance of €500 million floating rate notes by National Bank of Canada 
  • Advised BofA, HSBC, NatWest and RBC as underwriters on the issuance of £750 million notes by the Province of Québec
  • Advised Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan and other underwriters on the issuance of US$400 million senior secured green notes by a wholly-owned subsidiary of ReNew Energy Global Plc (NASDAQ: RNW)*
  • Advised Citi, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, NatWest, Barclays and other underwriters on the issuance of £250 million green notes by Lendlease Europe Finance plc* 
  • Represented HSBC, CIMB, Citi and Standard Chartered as joint bookrunners on the issuance of US$350 million senior unsecured notes by Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad*

Regulatory Capital

  • Advised the joint lead managers on the issuance of SGD 310 million fixed rate reset perpetual subordinated additional Tier 1 Capital Notes by The Toronto-Dominion Bank 

Liability Management

  • Represented Hydro‑Québec in the concurrent tender offer and exchange offer into new SOFR-linked floating rate notes in respect of its US$400,000,000 LIBOR-linked floating rate notes

 

* experience prior to joining the firm

"Tommy Chew is thorough, committed and attentive and is always well organised and efficient on trades." (Legal 500 UK, 2024)

"Specific expertise; availability and speed of response; market intel ...  Tommy Chew [is] recommended." (Legal 500 UK, 2025)

  • English
  • Cantonese
  • Mandarin Chinese