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Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Asia-Pacific Region

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Mayer Brown has a well-established finance group with a strong footprint across the region, offering impressive strength in Singapore and Vietnam, alongside a notable Hong-Kong based finance team. The team handles cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance mandates, acting predominantly on behalf of regional and international banks, and is particularly noted for its knowledge of structured trade and commodity finance work. The firm continues to broaden its regional footprint through the provision of transactional advice to banking organisations across South-East Asia. It remains a counsel of choice for an impressive roster of major PRC-based airlines, lessors and banks on aviation finance matters.

Notable practitioners

David Harrison in Vietnam, Soumitro Mukerji in Singapore, and Richard Stock in Hong Kong are key points of contact for the firm.

Work Highlights

Provided by Mayer Brown LLP

  • Mayer Brown advised the MLAs on the structuring and provision of debt financing provided to a joint venture between ESR and Chinachem for the acquisition of a logistics site in Hong Kong.

  • Mayer Brown advised an international bank as the coordinator and agent on a sustainable term loan valued at USD400 million to a Chinese automobile manufacturer. The transaction was one of the first facilities to combine green and social loan structures in the market.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

"The partners are experienced practitioners and have a good appreciation of the commercial aspects of the transaction and the need to be solutions-driven."

Banking & Finance respondent
Global

"They have deep banking and finance legal knowledge and provided us with value-added insights."

Banking & Finance respondent
Global