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With 23 offices, approximately 1,700 attorneys and more than 50 distinct areas of practice, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates serves clients in every major international financial center, providing the specific legal advice companies across a spectrum of industries need to compete most effectively in a global business environment. Our clients include half of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial and governmental entities, multilateral development banks, small, entrepreneurial companies and nonprofits.

Skadden has one of the world’s most experienced practices focused on energy and infrastructure transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, project finance and project development across all fuel types. With energy and infrastructure projects attorneys across the globe, Skadden has closed hundreds of complex transactions throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas involving energy-related and other infrastructure facilities.

Skadden has one of the world’s premier practices representing clients in the development, construction, operation, acquisition, disposition, ownership and financing of energy, transportation, telecommunications, and other infrastructure projects. We were selected as one of Law360’s Project Finance Groups of the Year for 2015. We also received IJGlobal’s “Latin American Solar Deal of the Year.”

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.

Bird & Bird is an international law firm which operates on the basis of an in-depth understanding of key industry sectors, including Aerospace, Automotive, Aviation, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media, Sport, and Technology & Communications. We have been doing business in China for nearly 20 years. We offer local expertise within an international context, with more than 1,100 lawyers and legal practitioners in 27 offices worldwide.

Our network in the Asia Pacific region comprises offices located in key business centres in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. Recongnised as leaders for intellectual property and telecommunications, media and technology in the region, our team of lawyers also specialise in providing clients with the full commercial service including corporate and advisory matters, M&A, corporate finance, project finance, regulatory and compliance, employment, competition law, sport, environmental, real estate, and all forms of dispute resolution.

In addition to our regional network, we have expanded our geographical footprint in the Asia Pacific region through a series of strategic and dynamic co-operations which include Tay & Partners in Malaysia, K&K Advocates and Nurjadin Sumono Mulyadi & Partners in Indonesia, and Hwang Mok Park in Korea.

Our five regional offices and formal co-operations, as well as strong links and extensive experience across the key technology rich, knowledge driven economies makes us particularly well placed to support out clients throughout the Asia Pacific and ASEAN nations.

We also have dedicated Steering Group and have developed strong relationships with some of the most respected local law firms in jurisdictions where we do significant work for clients including Japan, Taiwan, Macau, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, New Zealand, and elsewhere in Asia Pacific.

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.