Corporate Business/Mergers & Acquisitions

• Representing HNA Group in its multi-billion US dollar acquisition of Carlson Hotels and Rezidor Hotels;
• Representing HNA Group in its multi-billion US dollar acquisition of Switzerland-based Swissport Group;
• Representing a leading global automobile company in the sale of its international automobile brand to a renowned private automobile enterprise in PRC for several billion USD. The transaction was named the Best Merger & Acquisition Transaction in the PRC of 2010 by ALB, PRC Law & Practice, Asian Council, China Business Law Journal and other professional publications, and won several awards at the 2010 M&A Advisor Awards;
• Representing a leading global automobile company in the sale of its international automobile brand to an Indian company for several billion US dollars;
• Acting for a US$9 billion Refining Joint Venture Project between a foreign state-owned oil company and a PRC state-owned oil company in the PRC;
• Representing a United Arab Emirates investment company in the acquisition of the worldwide wind power business of a US electric power company for $600 million;
• Acting for a PRC central government-owned enterprise in the acquisition of a Europe steel company;
• Acting for a PRC listed company in its investment project in Mexico;
• Acting for a Chinese state-owned assets management company in a restructuring transaction in relation to it equity investment in a Hong Kong company;
• Acting for a Chinese state-owned investment company in a restructuring transaction in relation to it equity investment in a Hong Kong company;
• Acting as an agent for a PRC company in the backdoor listing of its global assets by acquiring a domestic listed company. The transaction is one of the first in which a PRC company lists its global assets on the PRC securities market;
• Representing HNA Group in the sale of its overseas assets;
• Acting for a PRC state-owned company in a several billion China-Russia gas purchase and financing transaction;
• Representing HNA Group in the establishment of a Chinese-foreign joint venture hotel management company in the PRC;
• Acting for a PRC central government-owned enterprise in the acquisition of a US listed automobile manufacturing company;
• Representing an American investment fund in its investment of hundreds of millions of US dollars in a high-grade office project in the PRC;
• Acting for a leading domestic automobile company in the acquisition of a German manufacturing company and investment in power cell production factors and mining projects in Indonesia;
• Representing a PRC company in the acquisition of non-performing assets of Mineral companies of Australia;
• Representing an American investment fund in its $60 million acquisition of a PRC hotel company;
• Acting for a US company in the investment, operation and management of a number of sports complexes and performance centers according to NBA standards in the PRC;
• Advising an international energy group on its investment, development, construction and financing of several power plants in Beijing, Hebei, Jiangsu and Hubei, China;
• Advising a US power company on its joint venture project for development, construction and operation of a power plant in Henan province, China.

Financing

M&A Financing

• Advising HNA on its multi-billion dollar acquisition finance from a Chinese bank for HNA¡¯s acquisition of an international hotel group;
• Advising a Chinese bank on its €60m acquisition finance for the acquisition of hotels in French Polynesia by a Chinese private company;
• Advising HNA on its acquisition finance from a Chinese state-owned bank for HNA¡¯s outbound acquisitions.

Infrastructure and Project Finance

• Advising China Development Bank in cross-border infrastructure project finance with Sinosure insurance in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Maldives;
• Advising Sinosure and China Development Bank on the landmark US$1bn GNPower Mariveles 2x300MW coal-fired power project in Philippines - China Business Law Journal Infrastructure & Project Finance Deal of the Year;
• Advising China Development Bank in US$1bn refinancing of GNPower Mariveles power project in Philippines;
• Advising Sinosure on providing insurance for a hydropower construction project in South America which was financed by China Development Bank with US$600m loan;
• Advising China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of China and Sinosure on the GNPower Kauswagan power project in Philippines;
• Advising a Chinese state-owned energy company on the approximate US$10bn project financing by certain Chinese state-owned banks and export credit agency of gas pipeline projects in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan;
• Advising a Chinese state-owned bank on a syndicated loan to an expressway PPP project in Bangladesh;
• Advising a Chinese state-owned fund on its financing for a road project to be constructed by a Chinese company in South Sudan.

Other Financing

• Representing a foreign national oil company in a transaction of US $1.5 billion down payment to a State-owned bank of the PRC;
• Advising a Chinese state-owned bank on a refinance the acquisition of an A380 aircraft for an airline company in the Middle East. This deal won the award for "Best cross-border airline or lessor financing by a Chinese financier" at the inaugural Airfinance Journal China Awards;
• Representing a foreign national oil company in the financing of a tens of billions of US $oil-for-loan project with State-owned banks of the PRC;
• Representing a foreign government and State-owned banks of the PRC in the financing of a billions of US $oil-for-loan project;
• Representing a State-owned bank of the PRC in a transaction of a billions of US$ credit facility with the government of a South American country;
• Representing the government of an Africa country in a transaction of preferential and commercial loan financing between the government of an Africa country and The Export-Import Bank of China of the PRC.