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Deloitte is one of the region's leading professional services networks with more than 16,000 specialists in 22 offices across the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Mongolia. Since establishing a presence in Hong Kong more than four decades ago, we have grown to more than 2,600 staff including 191 partners and gained extensive market recognition: 

· named to top tier in CICPA’s Comprehensive Assessment of the Top 100 Accounting Firms for 14 consecutive years 

· Central Banking Publications’ Advisory Services Provider of the Year 2019 

· Recognized as a leader in Information Security Consulting by Forrester 

· Awarded 5A Designation, the highest honor in China’s tax profession 

· China TOP5 Most Influential M&A Service Provider to Listed Companies 

Deloitte serves more than 80% of Chinese companies in the Fortune Global 500 and ranks No.1 in HK IPO and HKEX-listed company services.  

Deloitte offers innovative, one-stop BRI solutions across Audit & Assurance, Risk Management, M&A consulting and Human Capital advisory, helping Chinese and international businesses expand their global footprints. Bringing the full extent of our regional and global resources to bear, we provide deep insights into BRI markets and policies through research reports, participation in events including the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, as well as internal initiatives like our Belt and Road Roundtable and Deloitte with B&R WeChat campaign. Our insights and expertise in BRI projects has supported the expansion journeys of dozens of large SOEs including the Silk Road Fund, China Railway Group and State Power Investment Corporation.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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.

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.

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.

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. The firm represents leading multinational corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals. 

Our lawyers across the Greater China region have built robust cross-border investment, energy, resources and infrastructure and corporate practices, regularly advising PRC-based institutional and corporate investors on investments, deals and projects across Belt and Road countries and beyond.  Specifically, we have experience advising on the financing, development and construction of large scale infrastructure projects, the operational issues of power generation and resource extraction activities, joint ventures, capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions of infrastructure and resource companies, and litigation and arbitration in connection with the business activities of clients operating in Belt and Road markets.  

Our award-winning Belt and Road work is frequently covered by international media outlets.  Moreover, our clients deals, such as COSCO Shipping Lines Corp. Ltd and Lianyunguang Port Holdings Group Ltd’s joint investment into the SEZ Khorgos-Eastern Gateway project, have been recognized by the PRC Government as model Belt and Road deals.   

To learn more about how we can assist you, please visit www.klgates.com.