United Arab Emirates

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.

The parent company of China Construction Bank (Asia) (referred to as "CCB (Asia)") is China Construction Bank Corporation (referred to as "CCB"). CCB ranks as the world's fourth largest bank in market capitalization, and the country's second largest commercial bank. As the biggest overseas institution in CCB Group, CCB (Asia) provides comprehensive financial services for the local blue-chip and sizeable red-chip enterprises, as long as for the large Chinese corporates, and multinational and local companies.

In response to the national "Belt and Road" Initiative, CCB (Asia), with the support of its parent bank, has cooperated with countries along the “Belt and Road” in energy and natural resources development and infrastructure construction. CCB (Asia) has been actively involving into a variety of “Belt and Road” projects and aims to be an important platform for CCB’s overseas business.

Duff & Phelps is the premier global valuation and corporate finance advisor with expertise in complex valuation, dispute and legal management consulting, M&A, restructuring, and compliance and regulatory consulting. The firm’s more than 2,000 employees serve a diverse range of clients from offices around the world. For more information, visit www.duffandphelps.com

Ince & Co is a leading international commercial law firm with a history of 147 years. We specialise in shipping, energy and infrastructure, trade, business and finance, insurance, commercial disputes and aviation.

We have hundreds of lawyers and legal staff serving clients from our 11 offices, 4 of which are in Asia, namely, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore. Lawyers of our Hong Kong office and the Mainland China offices have for decades advised leading companies of Mainland China and Hong Kong on their outbound investments, and helped international clients in their investments and operations in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Asia . This is complemented by our international network in Europe and the Middle East through our 7 offices in London, Piraeus (Greece), Hamburg, Paris, Le Havre, Monaco and Dubai. Many of our lawyers are bilingual (English and Chinese) or multilingual and many are qualified in multi-jurisdictions. We work as an integrated team and offered clients our understanding the local legal and business culture and our international vision and experience.

All our offices are located at key points along the One Belt One Road (‘OBOR’ ) route and we have already been advising clients in and along the route for years. We have successfully helped clients execute intricate transactions and matters across the belt and the road including China, Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Africa. We have negotiated for clients deals each worth many billions of US dollars, and advise them in infrastructure and projects, energy and power, transport and logistics, industrial development, financial markets, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and structured financings.

With our expertise and established network of contacts at places along the OBOR route and lawyers who know the East and the West, we can help clients to implement projects along the OBOR, in due diligence exercises, partnership and joint venture arrangements; find the right partners and advise them when disputes arise.

We have also been advising the authorities and enterprises on the OBOR strategy. We are all set to serve and help more enterprises to participate in this unprecedented global project .

Eversheds is a progressive international law firm that sets the standards. Over the years, we have led the way in changing the face of legal services and providing a service that meets the needs of contemporary globalised businesses.

With offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, Eversheds is recognised as one of the leading international full service law firms in Asia, where we work as a single completely integrated team.

We provide a wide range of legal services covering banking and finance, compliance and regulatory, corporate M&A, debt and equity capital markets, employment, general commercial, IP/IT, litigation, arbitration and dispute management, construction & infrastructure, oil and gas, private equity and restructuring & insolvency.

Our clientele includes States and State-owned entities, major multinational corporations, small and medium sized enterprises, international banks and financial institutions, professional services companies, and government and regulatory bodies.

Reed Smith Richards Butler is a global relationship law firm with more than 1,800 lawyers in 26 offices across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States. The firm is a pre-eminent advisor to industries including financial services, life sciences, health care, advertising, technology, media, shipping, energy trade and commodities, real estate, manufacturing, and education.

Following a merger in 2008 with Richards Butler, since 2011 the firm has operated in Hong Kong as Reed Smith Richards Butler and is one of the largest international law firms in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific region. It provides market leading advice in corporate, commercial and shipping litigation, finance, property and intellectual property. The firm is readily equipped to provide various professional legal services for the countries and projects under the Belt and Road Initiative.