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Xue Wang

Partner

Tokyo

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Xue Wang

Partner

Tokyo

Xue has a wide range of experience acting for sponsors, financial institutions, export credit agencies and policy banks in relation to energy and infrastructure projects globally on all aspects of project development, including commercial contract negotiations and project financing.

Xue has deep experience in the LNG sector and power sectors (including conventional and renewable power). In addition, Xue has extensive experience working with Chinese companies, financial institutions and policy banks in relation to Belt and Road Initiative projects across sectors and geographies.

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Experience highlights

Expertise

Practices

Banking and Finance

Sectors

Banks

Office

Tokyo

JP Tower 22F, 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
100-7022

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2009

Registered Foreign Lawyer (England & Wales), Japan, 2015 (Tokyo Bar Association)

Academic

MA, Business Studies & Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2004

MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh, 2004

GDL, 2005

LPC, BPP Law School, 2006

Other noteworthy experience

Advising:

  • Ichthys, LNG Canada, Kohala, Bogota Metro, Myanmar G2P, Visaginas, O3b, CTO project
  • A group of gas and oil companies as sponsors, in relation to ongoing matters on the financing of the USD34bn Ichthys LNG project (an integrated mega-project) in Australia. The ECAs include JBIC, NEXI, KEXIM, K-SURE, COFACE, HERMES, ATRADIUS and EFIC and 24 commercial banks.
  • The lenders on the financing of a participating interest in LNG Canada.
  • China Harbour Engineering Co. Ltd (CHEC) in connection with the Primera Línea del Metro de Bogotá – Tramo I PPP project.
  • The sponsors on all aspects of the development and financing of an LNG to power project in Myanmar employing and FSRU.
  • ECA-backed lenders and DFIs in relation to the financing of O3b, a constellation of 8 MEO satellites aimed at providing internet access to large parts of Africa;
  • China Three Gorges International Corporation, the major Chinese state-owned power company, as sponsor in the financing of the planned 1,100-MW Kohala hydropower project in Pakistan. This is CTGIC's largest investment in the growing Pakistani hydropower market.
  • A gas and oil company and CPI on the project financing of a coal-to-olefins project in inner Mongolia, PRC.
  • Hitachi, Ltd in relation to the development of, and regulatory framework applicable to a new build nuclear power plant in Lithuania.

Recognition