Projects & Infrastructure (International Firms)

Milbank fields a well-regarded project finance group, experienced in advising Chinese lenders and sponsors on investment in projects across Asia and in Latin America and Africa. The highly integrated team in Beijing and Hong Kong is able to draw on expertise from the firm's offices in Singapore and Tokyo. It covers energy and infrastructure mandates globally, with particular expertise noted in the power sector, including renewables, as well as advising on infrastructure and mining projects, and offers additional experience advising on large-scale telecommunications construction projects. Its key clients include the Asian Development Bank, Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation and PT Amman Mineral Industri.

"The team is extremely proactive and responsive with high levels of professionalism."

"Milbank is very professional and experienced in handling complicated issues."

Milbank represented China Export-Import Bank on its EUR190 million financing of the Dabar hydropower project in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Desiree Woo is of counsel based in Hong Kong. She specialises in the financing and development of outbound infrastructure projects, and acts on mandates in the Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia. "She has solved various problems we have raised in a timely and effective manner." "She is very smart and picks things up very quickly."

Shepard Liu leads the project, energy and infrastructure finance practice from Milbank's Beijing office. He is a highly respected expert on project financing and development, especially with regard to energy infrastructure. "Shepard Liu is clearly the most capable and knowledgeable one among the many senior attorneys I have worked with. His legal skills and commercial sense are most impressive." "Shepard is an expert in project finance deals and he can always think and solve problems from our perspective. He has in-depth knowledge in all related matters and he's a fabulous communicator."