Li Zhu

China

Global Law Office · In the area of banking and finance, Li Zhu has represented most of the major PRC and international banks (BOC, CCB, ICBC, ABC, CDB, CEXIM, JPM, HSBC, SCB, BNP, IFC, ADB, etc.), including providing legal services in corporate finance (syndicated and bilateral loans), negotiable instruments, letter of credit, trade finance (sale of receivables and factoring), supply chain finance and vessel and aircraft finance. She has acted for a number of financing projects which are awarded by authoritative industrial journals as the annual deals (such as the financing work in ChemChina's acquisition of Syngenta, privatisation financing of Feihe Dairy). In respect of the compliance aspects of banking and finance, including cross-border payment, carbon trading, supply chain finance, futures and derivatives, etc. Li Zhu also provided the compliance relevant services. Li Zhu assisted a lot of PRC and international issuers in their issuance of bonds in the PRC (including panda bonds, inter-bank market bonds and exchange-traded bonds) and outside of the PRC (including in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, London and Frankfurt). These include a number of “first deals” in the relevant area (including the first Dim Sum Bonds issued by PRC companies in HK, and the Panda Bonds issued by Daimler, HSBC, Republic of Korea, Province of British Columbia, IBRD, etc.). In the area of ESG, Li Zhu had been providing legal services to ADB and IFC for their CDM and VER projects. In 2021 and 2022, she worked on over 20 carbon trading projects carried out by a foreign commodity trader; a number of carbon allowances, CCER and carbon inclusion projects traded on Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange and Guangzhou Emissions Exchange; and a number of issuances of blue, green and SLB bonds.

China