Dentons held the 6^th in its series of "Silk Road Opportunities Focused" China International Contractors Association (CHINCA)’s annual conferences for more than  100 representatives from the largest Chinese contracting companies and SOEs at a one-day event on December 7 in Kunming, Yunnan.  The event, hosted and organized jointly by the Hong Kong and Dubai offices with CHINCA, focused on the experiences that  each respective Dentons office gained from their PPP, BOT and other equity investment and procurement projects across some major "one belt, one road" countries, including Middle east, Iran and North/East Africa. 

In another year of truly cross border, collaborative effort, Dentons’ partners Keith Brandt (Managing Partner, Hong Kong), Neil Cuthbert (Senior Partner, Middle East), Wei Ma (Managing Partner and Global Board Member, Kunming),  Ramin Hariri (Partner, Paris), Michael Lacey (Partner, Cairo), Patrick Larrive (Partner, Casablanca) and Edwin Li (Partner, Beijing), presented alongside an exceptionally high quality panel of speakers including Qiuchen Fang (Chairman of CHINCA), Yao Danbo (Director, Department of Construction and Investment), He Lianghui (Deputy Director of Yunan MOFCOM), representatives from China Railway Construction Corporation Limited and Bank of China Headquarters, with guest speakers from KPMG China and Hill International (Middle East) Ltd.

Peter Deegan (Consultant, Dentons Warsaw) and Maria Ma (Partner, Dentons Urumqi) have supported and paid a special visit to Kunming, Yunnan to attend the conference.

Key themes and discussion topics emerging from the conference included:

• An introduction to investing and contracting in projects in Iran
• PPP Alchemy – is the Silk Road paved in gold?
• An introduction to investing and contracting projects in Morocco and other Francophone countries
• An introduction to investing and contracting in projects in Egypt and other East African countries
• Causes of loss and expense in Middle East and North African construction projects and key tips on avoidance and recovery
• Accounting firms’ perspective of OBOR
• Financing OBOR projects

For a copy of the materials (available in Chinese and English), including the full agenda, or to arrange an interview on trends with one of our speakers, please contact Karen Ho (karen.ho@dentons.com) or Mindy Yuen (mindy.yuen@dentons.com).

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