Francis Edwards > Clifford Chance > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile

Led from Hong Kong by the vastly experienced Francis Edwards and aided by a sizeable presence in Singapore and the PRC, the collaborative Greater China team at Clifford Chance provides ‘highly responsive and cost-effective’ advice to global and regional  financial institutions and investors across a broad range of structured finance and securitisation mandates. Many of the transactions are innovative often first-of-kind structures which require deep knowledge of the latest technology – here that the team is particularly well-positioned in part by virtue of its ability to draw from the knowledgebase of lawyers within the global team which have utilised similar structures. In a deal which involved input from Singapore and London, Edwards recently advised the global co-ordinating banks in relation to the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation’s debut securitisation of infrastructure and project finance loans. Terry Yang has a  ‘strong understanding of China’s financial market practices and regulations’, ensuring that he is a popular choice among local banks and securities firms seeking guidance on policy developments and in relation to the regulatory considerations underpinning structured note investments and margin financing transactions. Lin Lu has strong credentials among buy and sell-side participants and as well as his transactional work, he has, in his role as a director of the Asia-Pacific Structured Finance Association, actively participated in the promotion of China cross-border securitisation.