Global law firm Clyde & Co is delighted to announce that Lynia Lau has joined the firm’s energy and infrastructure team as a partner in Hong Kong.

Lynia trained and qualified as a lawyer at Herbert Smith, and joins Clyde & Co from Mallesons Stephen Jacques where she was Special Counsel and a key member of the Energy Resources and Projects team in Hong Kong. Prior to working in private practice, she worked in senior management roles at Sinopec and BP Amoco in Hong Kong.

Lynia has more than 20 years’ of legal and commercial oil, gas, power, mining, clean energy, and infrastructure experience with a strong focus on outbound investment work for major Chinese state-owned groups.

She has advised on some of the largest and most complex projects and transactions in the region including advising CNOOC Group on the Gorgon upstream M&A project in Australia; downstream LNG import gasification projects and LNG long term sales & purchase agreements for Guangdong LNG, Fujian LNG and Zhejiang LNG; and advising the three Governments on the multi-billion Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau Bridge project. Lynia is a dual-qualified Hong Kong and UK solicitor and is fluent in Mandarin and English.

In the past two years, Clyde & Co’s global energy team has doubled in size with the arrival of a dozen laterals, building out from the firm’s established dispute capability to cover a wide range of transactional disciplines including corporate, finance, projects and infrastructure. Clyde & Co acts for governments, developers, investors, sponsors, operators and contractors internationally as well as in the UK, both onshore and offshore. Advising across the entire energy value chain, the firm’s lawyers are based throughout our international network and have experience across every major hydrocarbon producing area in the world.

Clyde & Co Asia Pacific Managing Director Michael Parker said: “China is of immense strategic importance to the firm and our clients. There are tremendous opportunities for energy and infrastructure work across the region and Lynia is critical to our plans.”

Clyde & Co corporate energy partner Mike Wachtel said: “Lynia’s arrival underscores our commitment to our energy clients in key markets around the world. She comes with an extremely impressive track record, particularly in upstream M&A and LNG projects, and has the rare distinction of having worked at both a Chinese and an international energy major and also in private practice for over 10 years.”

Lynia said: “Clyde & Co has a rapidly expanding energy practice which is well-aligned to the key markets. Few other firms share its knowledge of and footprint in developing and emerging economies. I look forward to working with the team to expand Clyde & Co’s energy offering in the region.”