Well-known for its work advising in energy finance transactional contexts, the team at Ashurst ADTLaw handles a range of cross-border matters. Its workload includes assisting with mid to large-cap structured financing deals, including matters of acquisition and infrastructure finance, funds financing and related restructuring issues. The ‘outstanding and impressive’ Jean Woo leads the team and is known for handling a wide range of financing structures. Chin Chuan Chen is particularly experienced handling project finance matters, in particular.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
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- 'Ashurst is a strong outfit in South-East Asia and in Australia. Having worked across them on a number of Singapore deals with an Australian angle, I have found them to be very efficient and reasonable counterparties.'
- 'Very competent and responsive. They always look out for the client’s interest and don’t compromise on quality. Also they just seem like a great team who get along well with each other. Working with them has been a pleasure.'
- 'Jean Woo is an outstanding and impressive lawyer. Very commercial and intelligent. A lawyer we want on our side for complex deals.'
- 'They are commercial and provide pragmatic advice.'
- 'Ashurst is well-versed with complex, cross-border corporate work and is able to offer timely advice to meet tight deadline. Able to unpack complicated onshore regulations for foreign lenders to take tangible security.'
- 'Jean Woo is sharp, professional, knowledgeable, social, responsive and extremely helpful in addressing issues.'
Key clients
- HSBC Bank plc
- Deutsche Bank AG
- DBS Bank plc
- Goldman Sachs
- SMBC
- MUFG
- ANZ
- Investec Bank plc
- Victory Park Capital
- United Overseas Bank (UOB)
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited (OCBC)
Lawyers
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Practice head
Jean Woo
Other key lawyers
Chin Chuan Chen