Asia Pacific Continued Banking International Competition Skadden’s international banking and leveraged finance practice represents arrangers, investors and borrowers in numerous significant investment grade and leveraged debt-related transactions providing lender and borrower representation. We focus on complex, cross-border and innovative financings, predominantly leveraged. The international competition practice represents clients on a full range of competition law issues raised in multinational M&A and other transactions. Such issues arise in outbound Chinese investment around the world as well as foreign investment in Chinese entities (including the creation of joint ventures between Chinese and foreign companies). The international competition practice also represents clients across multiple jurisdictions with anticompetitive conduct issues relating to cartels and potential abuses of dominance, and has broad experience in designing and auditing global competition compliance programs. The lawyers in our Asian banking practice are familiar with all aspects of leveraged finance and have a sound understanding of other credit products such as project finance and high-yield.

Unlike some of our competitors, we place emphasis on our lawyers being trained on a broad front as we believe this gives them the skills to work around seemingly insurmountable obstacles to achieve the client’s objective. The practice is regularly engaged in the development of new techniques for financing and restructuring transactions. Our ability to mix the new with the old is particularly useful where, as is often the case, a bespoke rather than a standard solution is required by our clients. We were one of the first U.S.

law firms in Hong Kong to offer a “one-stop shop” of capabilities under English law, U.S. law and Hong Kong law. Real Estate and Investment Finance In Asia, the Real Estate and Investment Finance team operates across the firm’s Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing offices. Our team of real estate attorneys has advised developers, lenders, investment banks, pension funds, real estate investment trusts, domestic and foreign investors, and major corporations in connection with real estate-related transactions throughout the region, including with respect to properties in Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Guam and Saipan. 7  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates .