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Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. We use our expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportunities and manage risk across emerging and developed markets around the world.
We specialise in advising the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and governments on their most important and challenging transactions and assignments. We have advised on significant deals in over 100 countries. In addition to serving clients from our 29 offices and via our alliance with Allens and Webber Wentzel, Linklaters’ lawyers have expertise in key jurisdictions across Asia, emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Linklaters is currently advising on three of the 14 Prioritised Projects (with total installed capacity of approximately 10,400 MW) under the Agreement on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Energy Project Cooperation between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which is part of China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative.
Our global project finance team is renowned for its particular strength in advising on complex, international projects. We have advised on over US$1 trillion of closed project finance transactions around the world. We specialise in large scale, award winning and market-leading projects across the world – covering, oil and gas, petrochemicals, LNG, power, renewables, mining, ports, nuclear, water and waste, telecoms, stadia, airports, roads, bridges and rail-related transactions.
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.
Scotiabank is Canada’s most international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia. With a presence in over 55 countries including 11 in Asia-Pacific, we serve over 21 million customers through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, and corporate and investment banking. With a team of more than 86,000 employees and assets of $852 billion (as at January 31, 2015), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS).
Scotiabank has been present in Asia-Pacific for over 50 years and has operations in 11 countries in the region. Our unique international footprint positions us to work seamlessly across geographies to meet the needs of our multi-national and local customers looking to conduct business across multiple markets. Our proven expertise in our core sectors of Infrastructure, Energy, Mining, and Financial Institutions, enables us to promote connectivity, facilitate infrastructural development and ease trades of goods and capital with Asia and between Asia and the rest of the world. Our customers can benefit from the Bank’s sophisticated global platform of products and services integrating equity, debt, corporate lending, FX and commodity hedging, trade finance, and payments and capital markets solutions. We will provide industry expertise, a deep understanding of our customers’ business needs, and proactive and insightful solutions to help them grow their businesses.
*Scotiabank is a trademark of the Bank of Nova Scotia
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.
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.
CTBC Bank’s operations include deposits, loans, guarantees, foreign exchange, offshore banking units (OBU), trusts, credit cards, cash cards, securities, bonds, proprietary futures, derivatives, factoring, safe deposit boxes, electronic banking services, and the national lottery. Faced with the challenges of financial liberalization and an increasingly globalized marketplace, CTBC Bank took the initiative to increase service locations both in Taiwan and abroad. In 2014, we have a total of 147 branches within Taiwan and 100 outlets (representative offices, branches, and subsidiaries and their branches) overseas. Our many locations in the US, Canada, Japan, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China make CTBC Bank Taiwan’s most international financial institution.
Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW) is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, Willis Towers Watson has 45,000 employees serving more than 140 countries and markets.
We design and deliver solutions that manage risk, optimise benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. Our unique perspective allows us to see the critical intersections between talent, assets and ideas — the dynamic formula that drives business performance.
We are a strategic partner of Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office (IFFO), collaborating with a broad group of stakeholders from various industries and sectors, in order to support IFFO’s mission of facilitating infrastructure investments and financing flows, and to promote Hong Kong as an infrastructure financing centre.
Our comprehensive and powerful services include:
Corporate Risk and Broking
Help businesses craft strategies to quantify, mitigate and transfer risk, taking advantage of our specialist industry experience and unparalleled market know-how.
Human Capital and Benefits
Take a rounded perspective and unearth new ways to motivate people, foster well-being and implement human capital solutions that work for businesses.
Investment, Risk and Reinsurance
Help businesses free up capital and manage the equation between risk and return, by working closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers.
Benefits Delivery and Administration
Offer a suite of innovative, wholly owned, holistic and flexible benefits delivery solutions.
Together, we unlock potential. Learn more at willistowerswatson.com