Senior Partner
Guangzhou
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Highly regarded
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Banking and finance
“Mr. Zhou is modest, diligent and full of business wisdom.”
“Mr. Zhou is a solution-oriented lawyer with business thinking.”
“Leo is diligent and responsive. He can always provide practical and simple solutions in complicated situations.”
Mr. Leo (Liang) Zhou is an expert in capital market RMB internationalization and cross-border finance and technology and telecom. He is now the head of Banking and Finance group and the deputy director of Belt and Road Construction and Research Centre in Dentons China Region.
He has provided legal services for many global top 10 banks, fortune global 500, domestic and overseas listed company, funds and securities companies. His major clients include China Construction Bank (Asia), Bank of China (Hong Kong), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia), JPMorgan, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Rabobank, ING Bank N.V., Bank of East Asia, etc.
Mr. Zhou has also provided service for many listed companies and technology companies, including 3M, Mobvista, Ipsos, Evergrande, Mitsui, Tesco, Atotech, Ritz-Carlton, Genesis, TTM Technologies, Cardinal Health, Guangdong Mingzhu, Lucta, Evergreen, Guangdong Hengjian, Dowstone.
Mr. Zhou has dug into RMB internationalization and cross-border financial transaction for many years and enjoys an international reputation. He also has been invited to publish works “A Preliminary Research on Project of Financing Model” by China Forex in April 2017, together with Yi Huiman, the then Chairman of ICBC, Zhou Mubing, the then Chairman of Agricultural Bank of China, Wang Hongzhang, the then Chairman of CCB, Li Xiaopeng, the then vice Chairman of China Merchants Group, Lu Chun, the then Chairman of China Three Gorges Corporation, Wang Yilin, the then Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation, Yan Zhiyong, the then Chairman of China Power and other central enterprise leaders as well as famous economist Lin Yifu.
Advising China Construction Bank (Asia) in connection with its issuance of ESG Bonds 2021, consisting of US $600 million and US $550 million Senior Sustainability-Linked Notes (issued by the Hong Kong Branch), €800 million Zero Coupon Senior Green Bonds (issued by the Luxembourg Branch) and CNY 2,000,000,000 2.85 per cent. Notes (issued by the Singapore Branch).