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In this episode of the Law, Policy & Markets podcast, Geopolitics and 2025 Market Forecast: The View from Asia, host Allan Marks sits down with partner Jacqueline Chan to discuss their 2025 predictions for geopolitics, trade in Asia, climate impacts on investments, and cross-sector market trends, plus Ms. Chan’s thought-provoking book recommendations to read in the new year. They also look back at how much has changed since they recorded their first Law, Policy & Markets podcast episode together five years ago. A lot has changed in the world since 2020.
About the speakers:
Jacqueline Chan is a partner in Milbank’s Singapore office, previously based in Hong Kong. She advises on a wide range of international corporate finance transactions and M&A deals, and regularly represents sponsors, borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border acquisition finance transactions. In addition, she has significant experience with international debt restructurings in Asia. Ms. Chan specializes in structuring complex debt and equity transactions for clients both within and outside of Southeast Asia, and regularly advises many of the largest private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, corporates, leading banks and financial institutions in their various transactions globally and in particular throughout Asia.
Allan Marks is one of the world's leading project finance lawyers. He advises developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters in the development and financing of complex energy and infrastructure projects around the world, as well as acquisitions, restructurings and capital markets transactions. Many of his transactions relate to sustainability and innovative clean technologies. He is a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Sustainable Investment and teaches law at both the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. He previously taught project finance at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.