Stephenson Harwood LLP
Client SatisfactionStephenson Harwood LLP’s Singapore team is primarily focused on shipping and offshore finance, aviation finance, and restructuring and insolvency, though its extensive team brings in wider swathe of banking and finance engagements. It has made a further mark in ESG and sustainability-linked financings. Gregory Xu is an experienced and versatile practitioner that covers both asset finance and general lending; he led the team that advised MUFG Bank, through its Tokyo branch, on its initial loan to State Bank of India.
Testimonials
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‘Extremely high client focus. Attuned to what clients need and deep awareness of market practice. Very high technical expertise.’
‘Gregory Xu has exceptional awareness of commercial realities, what is feasible and practicable. A true business partner to us.’
‘Extensive international experience and expertise, with particular focus on the maritime, logistics and offshore energy sectors.’
‘Gregory Xu has extensive cross-border expertise and experience, and a constructive approach to all transactions.’
'Highly knowledgeable, personable partners and associates and good negotiators.'
Key clients
- ABN AMRO Bank
- AION Capital
- ANZ Bank
- Asian Development Bank
- Axis Bank
- Axis Trustee Services Limited
- Bank of America
- Bank of Baroda
- Bank of Communications
- Bank of Singapore
- BioNTech
- BNP Paribas
- Campana Group
- Chailease International Financial Services Co
- China Development Bank
- China Minsheng Banking Corporation
- CLSA Capital Partners
- Credit Agricole
- Credit Suisse
- DBS Bank
- DMI Finance India
- GMR Coal Resources
- Golden Equator Private Capital
- HDFC Bank
- HSBC Bank
- ICBC Bank
- ICICI Bank
- Industrial Bank of Korea
- ING Bank
- Kookmin Bank
- KPMG
- Lembaga Pembiayaan Ekspor Indonesia (Indonesia Eximbank)
- Mashreq Bank PSC
- MUFG Bank
- National Australia Bank Limited
- Nonghyup Bank
- Nordea Bank
- OCP Asia
- Q&M Dental
- Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
- Standard Chartered Bank
- State Bank of India
- Suhyup Bank
- The Export-Import Bank of China
- The Korea Development Bank
- TIAA Bank
- TransAsia Private Capital Limited
Work highlights
- Advised the State Bank of India (SBI) on a $1bn credit facility to the Government of Sri Lanka for the purposes of importing food, medicine, and other essential items.
- Advised on a sustainable infrastructure deal relating to Peacock Container Group's $240m sustainability-linked loan.
- Advised ABN AMRO Bank and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CACIB) on a $160m sustainability-linked loan to a subsidiary of BW Epic Kosan, which was secured to refinance 19 vessels and to finance potential growth opportunities.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Gregory Xu