East Asia - China

DLA Piper

DLA Piper’s Hong Kong-based projects and energy team guides Chinese clients with their outbound investments, predominantly in energy projects. Matthias Schemuth, steering the firm’s finance and projects practice in Asia, has an extensive track record of advising a varied clientele, from commercial banks to developers, on complex project financings across the continent. Russell Wilkinson is a specialist in energy infrastructure development and financing, whose expertise encompasses a wide realm from oil and gas transactions to M&A activities for energy firms. Carolyn Dong offers advisory services to Chinese clientele for overseas investments and to international investors keen on tapping into China’s energy and infrastructure sectors.

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Key clients

  • Asian Development Bank
  • ACO Investments

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Work highlights

  • Advising Natixis Investment Managers International Hong Kong Limited, Sunlife Insurance and Fubon Bank as lenders in relation to the limited recourse financing of a large portfolio of up to 30 MW rooftop solar PV projects in Hong Kong undertaken by Widex Solar.
  • Assisting China CITIC Bank International Limited and The Bank of East Asia Limited as Mandated Lead Arrangers, Bookrunners and Underwriters and Bank of Communications, Hong Kong Branch as Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunner as the mandated lead arrangers, underwriters and bookrunners with an up to USD500 million multicurrency term and revolving facilities agreement for China Water Affairs to finance water treatment projects in the PRC.

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