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DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning us to help companies with their legal needs around the world. Our Energy Infrastructure & Finance team is built around lawyers who have worked on some of the largest international infrastructure projects to have reached financial close, with many years of experience shared in a closely integrated working group. We provide legal advice on every aspect of complex infrastructure projects from the procurement strategy, tax structuring contractual documentation and risk allocation through to finance structuring. We are at the forefront of the infrastructure finance sector and deliver innovative solutions to clients on all aspects of financing infrastructure assets. The diverse range of sectors we cover includes roads; tunnels and bridges; heavy and light rail/mass transit systems; ports (including midstream oil & gas terminal facilities such as KNG liquefaction and regasification facilities oil storage and terminating facilities, etc.); airports; power plants; refineries and petrochemical plants; mines and smelters and other significant infrastructure transactions. We are well placed to advise on cross-border transactions through our network of offices as well as offering multinational clients a quality service throughout the markets in which they operate.

Bird & Bird is an international law firm which operates on the basis of an in-depth understanding of key industry sectors, including Aerospace, Automotive, Aviation, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media, Sport, and Technology & Communications. We have been doing business in China for nearly 20 years. We offer local expertise within an international context, with more than 1,100 lawyers and legal practitioners in 27 offices worldwide.

Our network in the Asia Pacific region comprises offices located in key business centres in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. Recongnised as leaders for intellectual property and telecommunications, media and technology in the region, our team of lawyers also specialise in providing clients with the full commercial service including corporate and advisory matters, M&A, corporate finance, project finance, regulatory and compliance, employment, competition law, sport, environmental, real estate, and all forms of dispute resolution.

In addition to our regional network, we have expanded our geographical footprint in the Asia Pacific region through a series of strategic and dynamic co-operations which include Tay & Partners in Malaysia, K&K Advocates and Nurjadin Sumono Mulyadi & Partners in Indonesia, and Hwang Mok Park in Korea.

Our five regional offices and formal co-operations, as well as strong links and extensive experience across the key technology rich, knowledge driven economies makes us particularly well placed to support out clients throughout the Asia Pacific and ASEAN nations.

We also have dedicated Steering Group and have developed strong relationships with some of the most respected local law firms in jurisdictions where we do significant work for clients including Japan, Taiwan, Macau, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, New Zealand, and elsewhere in Asia Pacific.

KPMG China is part of a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG operates in 155 countries and has more than 162,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such.

In 1992, KPMG became the first international accounting network to be granted a joint venture licence in mainland China. KPMG China was also the first among the Big Four in mainland China to convert from a joint venture to a special general partnership, as of 1 August 2012. Additionally, the Hong Kong office can trace its origins to 1945. This early commitment to the China market, together with an unwavering focus on quality, has been the foundation for accumulated industry experience, and is reflected in the Chinese member firm’s appointment by some of China’s most prestigious companies.

Today, KPMG China has around 9,000 professionals working in 16 offices: Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Foshan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Xiamen, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR. With a single management structure across all these offices, KPMG China can deploy experienced professionals efficiently, wherever our client is located.

Strategic Public Relations Group (SPRG) is one of the largest public relations networks in Asia and the largest public relations consultancy in Hong Kong.

SPRG is an integrated public relations group and an investor relations and financial communications specialist. With 300 professionals working from nine offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, the Group delivers tailored solutions in investor relations, corporate and marketing communications, event consultancy and management, product promotion, CSR communications, new digital media marketing, B2B communications, conference organisation, media skills and presentation training, issues and crisis management, editorial support and production.

SPRG clients include prominent players of the automobile, banking and finance, IT, travel and hospitality, healthcare and pharmaceutical, lifestyle, entertainment, and sports industries, as well as government bodies and associations.

Jones Day was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1893 and today, with 42 offices in Asia, America, Europe, Middle East and Australia and 2,400 lawyers worldwide, is one of the largest law firms in the globe.

Established in 1986, Jones Day’s Hong Kong office became the first branch office of a U.S. law firm to practice Hong Kong law in 1996. Today, our Hong Kong office comprises of approximately 50 lawyers, the majority of whom are admitted both in Hong Kong and at least one other jurisdiction, and who advise local, regional, and international clients in Hong Kong, China, and Asia. Our lawyers advise our clients on a broad range of legal issues including trade and investment, commercial property, construction, corporate and commercial, corporate finance, dispute resolution, employment, energy and projects, insolvency and corporate restructuring, IP, joint ventures, lending / structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, U.S. securities and venture capital, and private equity.

We have a strong Projects & Infrastructure team and a large Construction practice. Our attorneys in the projects team regularly represent developers, sponsors, equity investors, contractors, and suppliers, as well as lenders, underwriters, and other financing entities. The representation of clients on both sides of the transaction has given us keen insight into the issues involved in financing complex, capital-intensive projects. Our construction team serves an extensive and diversified group of clients active in large-scale international construction and engineering projects. Our lawyers advise on every aspect of the architectural, engineering, and construction process, from planning and design to financing, through bidding and award, during construction and after project completion.

Credit Agricole CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Credit Agricole Group, the world’s n°11 bank measured by Tier One Capital (The Banker, July 2015). The Bank offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services structured around six major divisions:

- Client Coverage & International Network
- Global Investment Banking
- Structured Finance
- Global Markets
- Debt Optimisation & Distribution.
- International Trade & Transaction Banking

The Bank provides support to clients in large International markets through its network with a presence in major countries in Europe, America, Asia Pacific and The Middle East.

White & Case is an international law firm that serves companies, governments and financial institutions. Established in 1901, our long history as a global firm means we are able to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they are.

With 39 offices across 26 countries we are uniquely positioned to guide our clients through the complex and varied legal landscapes along the Belt and the Road. Our global practices, including offices along the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road, stand ready to assist on projects of various complexity, sizes and nature. In particular, our Project Finance, Infrastructure, M&A and Finance practices are market leaders in many of the jurisdictions in which they operate across the Silk Road and beyond. Clients turn to us for our deep experience in the development of precedent-setting infrastructure projects in frontier and emerging markets.

With close to 100 Chinese speaking legal practitioners, three Greater China offices and China deals in Europe, Africa, North and South America, we are ideally positioned to advise clients involved in developments and investments along these important trade routes.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with 51,000 employees in approximately 400 offices and 70 countries. Across Greater China, there are 21 offices servicing the local market. The company won four of the top awards in the Euromoney Survey 2017 & 2018 in the categories of Overall, Agency Letting/Sales, Valuation and Research in China. In 2018, the firm had revenue of $8.2 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, advisory and other services. To learn more, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com.hk or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/cushman-&-wakefield-greater-china)

RLB is a global independent construction, property and management consultancy with 120 offices and 4500 employees across 36 countries.

In North Asia, RLB's headquarters is strategically located in Hong Kong, supported by branch offices in all major cities in Mainland China, Macau, and South Korea. Our North Asia team consists of over 1,550 dedicated professionals who specialize in delivering comprehensive cost consultancy and quantity surveying services tailored to the property and construction sectors.

Our achievements have been recognized with the prestigious title of ‘The QS Team of the Year’ at the RICS Hong Kong Awards for four consecutive years since 2021. Furthermore, in 2021, our Hong Kong office became the first quantity surveying consultancy in the region to achieve compliance with ISO 19650-2:2018, underscoring our commitment to the digitization of information.

Leveraging Hong Kong's advantages as the “super-connector” in Belt and Road Initiative, RLB has assisted many Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong companies in their overseas projects, providing full quantity surveying and cost consultancy services.

SMBC is the world's 19th largest bank in terms of tier one capital and 19th largest bank in assets. (Source: The Banker 2015 edition) SMBC Hong Kong Branch opened in 1962. It has very strong product delivery, with loan syndication team, project finance team and a leveraged finance team based in Hong Kong with a proven successful track record in origination, underwriting and loan distribution.

SMBC is one of the most active project finance banks especially in the regions of South East Asia, Middle East and Europe.

SMBC has been actively supporting infrastructure developments in those regions through project finance scheme.