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Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm, with over 1,500 staff worldwide, including more than 230 partners and a total legal staff of over 900, situated in key business and financial centres across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Our Client base includes a significant number of the current FTSE 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies and we advise the top 10 investment banks, many of the world’s largest financial conglomerates and more than half of the top 50 European hedge fund managers. We work across core practice areas including corporate & commercial, dispute resolution, employment, pensions & employee benefits, EU, competition & regulatory, financial markets, information, communications & technology, intellectual property, projects, real estate and tax. Simmons & Simmons has a specialised focus on specific sectors, including asset management & investment funds, energy & infrastructure, financial institutions, life sciences, technology, media & telecommunications (TMT).

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Holman Fenwick Willan is recognised as a leading global law firm advising on all aspects of international trade and commerce. Across 13 offices worldwide, our 425 lawyers provide a first-class service in advising a range of governments and some of the world’s leading companies on trade issues and major infrastructure projects, particularly within our core sectors of energy and resources, ports and terminals, shipping, aviation and construction. Many of our Partners are recognised experts in their fields and our dedicated projects group applies its sector expertise in advising from procurement, risk and quality management stage through to land tenure and management including negotiating concession agreements, financing, construction, on-going operations and maintenance and dispute management and resolution in relation to projects spanning the key global international transport routes and the trade zones including China, the Persian Gulf, Central and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and Europe. Our group also has specialists expertise in joint venture arrangements (both with government and private sector projects), creating structures for investment funds, advising on issues relating to real estate funds management, the sale and acquisition of companies and interests, project finance, structured finance and leasing, planning and regulatory approvals and dealing with governmental agencies. Our offices throughout Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe have particular expertise in assisting clients on major infrastructure projects in key emerging markets forming part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Founded in Los Angeles in 1890, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is one of the most prestigious of the truly global law firms. With more than 1,200 attorneys in 18 offices, Gibson Dunn is committed to providing top-tier legal services – wherever your business may take you. We are proud to represent over half of the Fortune 100 companies in a wide variety of legal matters.

Our Asia-based attorneys have all lived and worked in the region for many years and possess an in-depth understanding of the legal and business cultural environment. They have the capacity to handle the most challenging and substantial transactions anywhere in Asia.

Gibson Dunn maintains a leading infrastructure and project finance practice, with experience in more than 60 countries and deep familiarity with the industrial, commercial, financial and political issues that are inherent in the development, financing, construction and operation of major infrastructure facilities around the world. The group has been widely recognized as one of the top 15 project finance practices worldwide. Our infrastructure team has been involved in major infrastructure facilities including toll roads, airports, parking facilities, ports, pipelines, water and waste-water projects, stadiums, tourism and other public use facilities around the globe. We represent sponsors and developers, governments, contractors, commercial and investment banks, institutional lenders and equipment suppliers in connection with all aspects of project development, including bid preparation and qualification, contract negotiation and drafting, financing arrangements, construction and operation-related issues, licensing and establishment of local offices and, when necessary, claims preparation, negotiation and dispute resolution, including arbitration. We also frequently represent clients in the acquisition or disposition of infrastructure assets.

Ashurst, founded in 1822, is a London-based leading international law firm with a rich history spanning more than 200 years. Our clients include major local and global corporates, financial institutions, assets management companies, government agencies and regulatory bodies. We are a full service law firm specialising in areas including banking and finance, capital markets, financial services regulatory, corporate/M&A, and dispute resolution. We have become a trusted legal adviser to major financial institutions, corporates, fund management houses and sovereign wealth funds and our clients also include a number of governments and quasi-government organisations. We are widely acknowledged by our clients for delivering accessible, proficient and commercially-minded services. As a truly global law firm, Ashurst has a reputation for successfully managing large and complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, disputes and projects and delivering outstanding outcomes for clients.

Ashurst has 31 offices in 18 countries, including offices in alliance with local counsel in relevant jurisdictions. With more than 490 partners as well as over 2,000 lawyers and other legal specialists working across numerous time zones, the firm offers the reach and insight of a global network, combined with the knowledge and understanding of local markets and is able to leverage on our network to assist you in each phase of the transaction from a global perspective.

Since 1949, Baker & McKenzie have advised leading corporations on the issues of today’s integrated world market. we bring to matters the instinctively global perspective and deep market knowledge and insights through the most developed global platform in the legal profession, geographically and in the scope of our practice with unrivalled network of 77 offices in 47 countries.

In terms of our network in countries along Belt and Road Initiative, Baker & McKenzie owns offices in 28 cities of 23 countries which are involved in the Initiative. Those countries include: China, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippine, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, The Republic of Czech, The United ARAB Emirates, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam. Although we do not have an office in India, Baker & McKenzie's India Focus Group has been helping companies capture opportunities in India for over 50 years.

Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai offices were established in 1974, 1993 and 2003, respectively. In total, the three offices are staffed by over 400 lawyers and professional staff. The Firm provides dedicated legal services across the broad spectrum of corporate law. Baker & McKenzie’s practice in Hong Kong and Mainland China is consistently ranked in the top tier within legal directories as well as industry surveys, and described as a leading or highly recommended firm in almost all categories of law.