David Li > White & Case LLP > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile

‘Highly focused on making sure deals get done‘, White & Case LLP is consistently involved in sizeable Greater China finance transactions, and in addition to the firm’s widely respected lender-side work, the practice has significant borrower financing capabilities. The team is also increasingly active on behalf of alternative capital providers. In Beijing, David Li focuses predominantly on China inbound and outbound financing deals, and associate Cherry Zhou acts for Chinese and international financial institutions and borrowers on acquisition, corporate and project finance transactions. Over in Shanghai, senior consultant Frank Shu is experienced in acquisition, structured and real estate finance. Hong Kong-based Eugene Man, an expert in leveraged financing and structured private debt, leads the Asia-Pacific banking and capital markets practice, and Baldwin Cheng, who actively contributes towards the development of the firm’s sponsor-side financing practice, routinely acts for alternative capital providers and private equity funds.

White & Case LLP’s China projects and energy practice offers ‘exceptional experience in complex project finance deals’ and project development in the energy, oil and gas, mining and metals, and infrastructure arenas. The team handles various domestic transactions within China, as well as Chinese outbound investments, with a client list that features major developers, lenders, and firms from the construction, energy, and mining sectors. David Li heads the department and hones his focus on equity and debt financings, with a geographical spread that encompasses Asia, Africa, and Latin America, offering invaluable counsel to multilateral lenders and banks on their financing undertakings in China and abroad. Vivian Tsoi lends her expertise to intricate US-China and Europe-China cross-border transactions, while Shaohui Jiang advises major Chinese state-owned enterprises, steering their overseas projects and operations.