Banking and finance
‘The firm’s banking team has been called, “Great at pulling together difficult cross-border transactions”. Norton Rose’s team has been highly recommended for its advice on Islamic financing matters and has worked on many groundbreaking transactions in the region. The firm is also known for its strong industry focused expertise, with especially in the asset and energy and resources sectors.’
IFLR 1000, 2013
Our Hong Kong banking and finance team has a long history in the region, acting for clients on a wide range of banking law issues across Asia Pacific. We advise a number of the world’s leading investment and commercial banks and many prominent corporations across our key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
With strong experience of inbound and outbound banking transactions, we regularly advise on both local and regional deals, and can deliver seamless advice on cross-border transactions, working closely with our banking and finance colleagues throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Asia.
We deliver:
- The ability to offer advice in English, Mandarin and Cantonese; our team is made up of trilingual specialist banking and finance lawyers
- In-depth knowledge of the region and of local business practices
- The benefit of working with a leading international legal practice; we regularly provide advice on a multidisciplinary basis, working alongside our Hong Kong corporate team
Our areas of work include:
- acquisition finance
- asset finance (shipping, aviation and rail)
- corporate lending (bilateral and syndicated loans)
- debt capital market
- export finance
- Islamic finance
- leverage finance
- project finance
- real estate finance
- structured trade and commodity finance
- trade, commodity and export finance
Our recent work:
- Advising the Republic of Indonesia on the establishment of a US$3 billion sukuk issuance program and the initial issuance of US$1 billion of sukuk under the program
- Advising Sunac China Holdings Limited on a Regulation S offering of US$400 million aggregate principal amount of its 12.5 per cent senior notes due 2017
- Advising The Bank of New York Mellon as trustee on the offering by Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. of US$1.5 billion 1.55 per cent senior secured notes due 2017 and US$1 billion 2.95 per cent senior secured notes due 2022, which have been listed on the Singapore Exchange and guaranteed by Mizuho Financial Group
- Advising MGM China Holdings Limited and its wholly-owned subsidiary, MGM Grand Paradise, S.A., on a HK dollar senior credit facilities agreement in respect of facilities in an aggregate principal amount equivalent to US$2 billion. The transactions involve a range of complex financing issues
More information on our global banking and finance practice