Banking and Finance

DFDL provides expert legal counsel on banking and finance matters across the dynamic markets of South and Southeast Asia. We navigate the complexities of both emerging and established economies, offering strategic advice on corporate banking, project finance, financial services regulation, and fintech. Our clients include a diverse range of domestic and international banks, financial institutions, development banks, and investors.

Key Credentials

ING Bank on its USD 75 million loan to Cleantech Solar Asia to help finance, construct and operate a portfolio of rooftop solar photovoltaic projects across Southeast Asia. This was the largest “green” loan in Asia Pacific in the commercial renewables sector.
Standard Chartered Bank on the USD 195 million term loan financing to Ha Noi Thien Y Environmental Energy for its development of a 75 MW waste-to-energy plant in Hanoi – Vietnam’s largest waste-to-energy plant.
IFC, Daelim Energy and Clifford Capital, the lender and equity investors on a USD 170 million financing to a Singapore entity for the acquisition of Summit Corporation Limited that owns a majority controlling stake in 17 gas and fuel-based power projects ranging from 50 MW to 450 MW capacity in Bangladesh.
China Development Bank, one of the largest state-owned development banks in the world, in connection with the lending of a term loan bank facility of USD 100 million to the Bank of the Lao PDR.
Mizuho Bank and ING Bank, as lenders’ counsel, in connection with a USD 55 million loan facility for the purpose of refinancing a power transmission line operator, Cambodian Transmission.
Grab, as lenders counsel for Cambodia and Myanmar, in relation to advising a consortium of lenders on its first senior secured term loan facility, the biggest term loan facility in the Asian tech sector, with a principal amount of USD 2 billion.
IFC and ADB as local counsel on a proposed USD 400 million equity and loan funding on a project finance basis for the Landmark mixed use real estate development in downtown Yangon being carried out by the Yoma Group of companies.
A foreign export-import bank on its USD 800 million acquisition financing of a large teak plantation in Myanmar.
A consortium of banks and financial institutions on its financing of USD 300 million to a 225 MW gas-fired combined power plant project, the largest of its kind in Myanmar, the Myingyan Power Plant.