Market Assessment and Project Selection

Founded in 1896, Withers is a leading international law firm dedicated to serving the business interests of organisations. Comprised of over 160 partners across 17 strategic offices in Asia Pacific, Europe and the USA, our lawyers are qualified to practice in the laws of several countries and work closely with colleagues around the world to provide seamless international services. Our firm can operate across multiple legal disciplines, time zones and jurisdictions. Legal services that we can advise on include: corporate, personal and corporate tax, intellectual property, dispute resolution, arbitration, immigration, real estate, wealth and estate planning. We have a team of experienced project finance lawyers who have worked on major project finance deals including in Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, CIS, Middle East and Africa across multiple sectors. The range of industries we have experience in include power generation and transmission, oil and gas, mining, transport, telecoms and agribusiness. We regularly advise clients from the early stages of project structuring on risk allocation between different counterparties, bidding procedures and concession agreements, as well as on project bankability and security arrangements. We also have significant experience advising lenders and borrowers on debt and equity investments by multilateral institutions in emerging markets. Our project finance clients include international banks, multinational borrowers, lenders, equity investors, project companies and state institutions. Our wide range of clients and jurisdictional coverage allows us to have a comprehensive understanding of the issues affecting our clients, and to come up with the relevant legal advice for their transaction.

Dezan Shira & Associates is a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm, providing legal, tax and operational advisory to international corporate investors. Operational throughout China, ASEAN, Vietnam & India, our mission is to guide foreign companies through Asia’s complex regulatory environment and assist them with all aspects of establishing, maintaining and growing their business operations in the region.
With 25 years of on-the-ground experience, the firm has grown into one of Asia’s most versatile full-service consultancies with operational offices across China, Hong Kong, India, Singapore and Vietnam, Alliance Partner firms in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, as well as liaison offices in Italy, Germany and the United States.
Our services include pre-investment and entry strategy advisory, comparisons of investment destinations, due diligence, corporate establishment, tax planning, accounting & reporting, treasury administration, financial review, internal audit & compliance, human resource administration & payroll, and ERP & financial system review.Dezan Shira & Associates is committed to improving the understanding and transparency of investing across Asia. The firm publishes significant and well received business intelligence about each of the markets and disciplines in which it operates in through its publishing subsidiary Asia Briefing Ltd.., which includes technical publications and highly rated websites concerning business investment in China, India, Vietnam, ASEAN and other Asian Countries along Belt and Road Area. Silk Road Briefing is designed to monitor investment and infrastructure developments and potential opportunities for foreign investors to participate along the "One Belt, One Road" scheme.

Taylor Wessing’s Hong Kong office provides legal services to companies doing business in Hong Kong, Greater China, and the ASEAN region. We also serve clients using Hong Kong as a platform for their regional and international investments.

As a European firm with 20 years presence in China, more than 1,200 lawyers at over 33 locations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and with our representative offices in the USA, Taylor Wessing offers world-wide top-quality, integrated legal and tax consultancy services to multinationals, SME and private clients. We focus on a number of key industries including Technology, Media and Communications, Energy, Life Sciences and Healthcare, and Private Wealth.

In association with HM Chan & Co, our combined offering enables us to provide a full suite of international and local commercial business law services in Hong Kong including corporate, merger and acquisition, capital markets, regulatory and compliance advice on inbound and outbound matters. Our Hong Kong and German qualified lawyers and tax advisors are fluent in English, German, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Dun & Bradstreet, the global leader in commercial data and analytics, enables companies around the world to improve their business performance. Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud fuels solutions and delivers insights that empower customers to accelerate revenue, lower cost, mitigate risk, and transform their businesses. Since 1841, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity. 

D&B Belt & Road Solutions offer businesses the most comprehensive and actionable view on the 100+ Belt & Road economies with unparalleled depth and accuracy. With data coverage of 105+ million D&B-verified businesses along the Belt & Road, our solutions in risk management, country insights, data & analytics and supply & compliance are tailored to empower your organization to capitalize on the most profitable opportunities and gain a competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.dnb.com.hk.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services. We have more than 160 offices in over 40 countries and territories employing more than 4,500 people who work on projects around the world. ERM is committed to providing a service that is consistent, professional and of the highest quality to create value for our clients. We have worked with many of the Global Fortune 500 companies delivering innovative solutions for business and selected government clients helping them understand and manage the sustainability challenges that the world is increasingly facing.

For over 40 years we have been working with clients around the world and in diverse industry sectors to help them to understand and manage their environmental, health, safety, risk and social impacts. The key sectors we serve include Oil & Gas, Mining, Power, and Manufacturing, Chemical and Pharmaceutical. All face critical sustainability challenges and our clients in these and many other areas rely on our ability to assist them operate more sustainably which has a positive impact on our planet.

We are an environmental technology and solution provider in waste management & cloud-based IoT monitoring MSW for smart cities. We aim to re-direct recyclable wastes from landfill & incinerator to become useful resources or energy. Our specialties are waste glass bottle processing equipment with collection service for bars, restaurants, hotels, commercial buildings, housing estates & communities. We also offer waste handling equipment of mobile bin tippers and bin compactors with weighing system.