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Harneys’ Hong Kong office is the hub of our expanding British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands Legal practice in Asia. Harneys has been the leading firm for BVI law for decades; we helped write the commercial law and no other firm comes close to our collective expertise. Lawyers from our Hong Kong office advise on a wide range of matters covering the core transactional practice areas including banking and finance, capital markets, corporate, trusts and investment funds.

Our Cayman transactional practice advises on banking and finance, corporate, capital markets, funds and trusts matters. We have particular expertise on Cayman Islands funds and the structuring of downstream corporate transactions for private equity and venture capital funds.

We undertake all aspects of litigation in BVI and Cayman Islands courts, shareholders disputes, fraud and asset tracing/enforcement and contentious trusts disputes. Our restructuring and insolvency group leads the offshore market in both global reach and expertise. We advise lenders and investors at all levels of the capital structure, corporates and insolvency officeholders. Other areas of expertise include debt and equity rescheduling and refinancing, distressed mergers and acquisitions and distressed funds advice.

The Hong Kong office also provides clients with a real time interface for Harneys’ Anguilla and Cyprus law practices and its BVI intellectual property, regulatory, private client and shipping practices. We also offer corporate and fiduciary services through our affiliate Harneys Corporate Services (Asia) Limited.

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.

Mourant is a leading offshore law firm with expertise in Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Jersey and Guernsey law.  

Our clients include many of the world's leading financial institutions, corporations, public organisations, private equity houses and investment funds, as well as ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices. We routinely work in partnership with the most prestigious international legal and accountancy firms. 

As one of the world's leading offshore law firms, our business is intrinsically connected to the global economy and the capital flows that support it. But our global perspective is far more than that. It's at the heart of what we do: the way we think, the way we organise ourselves and the way we deliver our services. 

We operate as one borderless firm, bringing our collective insights to each of our clients wherever in the world they have a presence. And we build trusted relationships with our clients and their advisers, underpinned by a set of client service principles that we call The Mourant Way.  

Our 'one firm, one team' approach means that we are uniquely positioned to leverage the skills and experience of a broader team, across Asia, US and European time zones to support the projects across the Belt and Road Initiative.

Madison Pacific Trust Limited (“MPTL”) is a premier independent provider of an extensive range of trustee and other agency roles including escrow, custodial, fund administration and management, directorships and company secretarial services throughout Asia Pacific. Our mission is providing the highest quality of service and responsiveness to our clients.

Our directors are all qualified legal or accounting personnel with over 20 years of expertise (law firms, accounting firms and insolvency practices). This in-house experience means clients benefit from our ability to act in a range of complex scenarios.