Ms Vicky Ma > Clifford Chance > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile

Clifford Chance acts for a broad range of clients, from foreign investment banks, Chinese banks and private equity sponsors to credit funds and corporates, on high-profile banking and finance matters, including acquisition finance and loan facilities agreements. The group is well placed to utilise its global network to advise on cross-border financings across the APAC region. Anthony Wang and Matthew Truman jointly lead the group and are key contacts for the group’s syndicated lending mandates, while Michael Pallaras, who was promoted to partner in May 2024, handles acquisition finance matters, in addition to real estate and development finance work. Other key members of the team include managing partner Dauwood Malik, Maggie Lo and Vicky Ma, whose ‘truly versatile skillset helps clients navigate and resolve complex issues effectively’.

Operating from its Singapore hub, Clifford Chance is well-positioned to advise both national and multinational clients on a broad range of complex corporate and M&A, restructuring, and capital markets transactions across the Philippines. The firm boasts a strong record of acting for lenders in relation to asset, acquisition, and project finance matters, in addition to international arbitrations. Co-leading the team is Melissa Ng with capabilities spanning M&A, joint ventures, and divestments, and Vicky Ma who is noted for her expertise banking and finance issues, with experience in advising financial institutions on international project financing within the energy and infrastructure sectors.

The interdisciplinary energy and natural resources team at Clifford Chance LLP handles a variety of work in the projects space, and, is most notably recognised for long-standing climate change practice. Practice head Jiahua Ni is a key point of contact for major banks looking for assistance with cross-border financings, Shanghai-based Kelly Gregory handles national and international M&A, disposals and joint ventures, whilst in Beijing Terence Foo advises on public and private M&A transactions in teh energy sector. Splitting their time between Hong Kong and Beijing are Maggie Lo, who is well versed in handling cross-border financings including project finance, acquisition finance for Chinese and international financial institutions and borrowers and Vicky Ma, who deals with international project financing transactions in the energy and infrastructure spaces.