Financing and Insurance

Founded in 1993, Kingdee International Software Group is listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (stock code: 0268). As a leading brand in the Chinese corporate management software market, the company specialises in information management products, and its services have benefited more than 6.8 million businesses and government agencies. Kingdee’s Cloud ERP system currently holds the No.1 market share in China. Kingdee International Software Group (HK) Limited was established in Hong Kong in 2001 to serve Chinese and Hong Kong enterprises and drive business expansion along the Belt and Road. Kingdee’s Cloud-based solutions, covering areas such as financial management system, supply chain and warehousing, smart manufacturing, HR management, F & B system and e-commerce, significantly improve their internal management and risk control capabilities by integrating business activities in China with the Belt and Road regions.

Arup is an industry leader working with a wide range of clients on infrastructure projects of the highest risk and impact. We help our clients provide sustainable infrastructure that benefits coming generations. This means an investment that will pay off many times over in the future, and a good design that balances social, economic and environmental issues while leading to improved socio-economics. In more than 34 countries, our 14,000 designers, engineers, planners and consultants together delivered a long and successful track record that spans the energy and utilities, transport and social infrastructure sectors worldwide. With an office network covering most key nodes along Belt and Road, we are now working with Chinese and international investors to open up exciting opportunities in fast-growing markets around the world.

FitzGerald Lawyers is a law firm based in Hong Kong with a branch office in Sydney and well-defined relationships in Mainland China. We offer a platform of over 200 professionals in Asia Pacific and work closely with local firms and advisors throughout the region.  Our professionals have large international law firm or corporate experience and are fluent in English, Chinese, Croatian, Italian, French and German. Lawyers in our group are recognised as leaders in their fields in industry publications such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.  Together we can help our clients cross borders and explore business opportunities in the Belt Road Initiative. 

We have a broad range of experience in corporate and finance transactions, including project financings, securitizations and derivatives, mergers and acquisitions, acquisition financings and insolvencies, and restructurings. Our banking & finance partner represented lenders, developers, investors and other stakeholders such as family offices in transactions in the banking & finance, energy, retail, water, telecoms, ports, oil & gas, transportation, steel, real estate and hotel sectors throughout Asia, Europe and the Australia. 

We are also experienced in commercial, corporate and regulatory litigation and international arbitration conducted in various arbitration centers, including the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). In complex cross boarder matters, we are able to grasp the facts and set out the legal procedure in a commercial way.

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.

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.

Lockton is a global professional services firm with 6,500 Associates who advise clients on protecting their people, property and reputations. Lockton has grown to become the world’s largest privately held, independent insurance broker by helping clients achieve their business objectives.

Lockton Companies (Hong Kong) Limited, established in 1983 and controlling office of the Greater China’s operation of Lockton Companies LLC, is a leading provider of risk consulting, insurance broking services and employee benefits solutions to a wide range of businesses. Our operation today comprises of 140 experienced professionals and our operating divisions cater to our clients’ needs and offer them access to experts throughout Asia and around the globe.

Our Services: risk management, insurance & reinsurance solutions to: construction and property development, catering and restaurants, financial services, hotel and hospitality, innovation and technology, manufacturing, power and energy, professional Services, retail and trading, marine hull & P&I.

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.