Projects & Infrastructure

In Macau, Africa, and Latin America, and within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), our projects, construction, and infrastructure team provides quality legal services in energy, mining and natural resources, environment, project finance, property, and corporate-related fields. Our experience is not limited to specific areas of the construction industry but enables us to provide clients with a full range of legal advice on industrial projects, infrastructure projects, and large commercial and residential development projects. Our lawyers balance between risks and business purposes no matter how complex a project is and provide legal advice that takes into account how to effectively share and manage risks. This unique perspective enables us to respond to your risk appetite while ensuring profitable project results and ensuring that construction risks are properly allocated to the party or parties best able to manage them to make sure projects are profitable from a construction risk perspective. We advise project sponsors, construction companies, SOEs, lenders, financial institutions, and investors on construction contracts, design and construction agreements, cross-border construction, and construction dispute resolution in numerous domestic and overseas public-private partnership (PPP) projects including those in BRI countries in the fields of transportation, electricity, water, municipal facilities, environmental governance, district development and others. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers opportunities for further development of PPPs as an important form of cooperation between the government and private sector to optimize the delivery of important public services, which have spread over the past decades. Our team has wide experience in projects in the development of PPP projects in Macau, Africa, and Latin America with life cycles often of more than a decade, and involving challenges in project initiation, identification, preparation, participation in competitive procedures, contract negotiation, financing, construction, operation and maintenance to delivery in different jurisdictions. We advise project sponsors, government departments, project companies, contractors, banks, funds, and other participants on different phases of PPP projects including legal due diligence, transaction structure design, public procurement and bidding, and project company establishment, preparation and negotiation of PPP contracts, offtake agreements and other key PPP project agreements, construction and operation and management (O&M), project investment and financing, compliance, fund and asset securitization, and dispute resolution.