The Hong Kong office of Clyde & Co welcomes energy and infrastructure specialist Lynia Lau today as its newest partner. Lau was previously with Mallesons Stephen Jaques as a senior counsel on its energy resources and projects team.

Lau brings more than 20 years of legal and commercial oil, gas, mining, energy and infrastructure experience to her new firm. Her practice will have a strong focus on outbound Chinese investment work for Chinese companies. 

Prior to working in private practice, she held senior management posts at Sinopec and BP Amoco.

She has advised on some of the largest and most complex transactions in the region, such as acting for the CNOOC Group on the Gorgon upstream M&A project in Australia and advising the three governments involved in the multi-billion dollar Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau Bridge project.

Speaking on Lau’s arrival, 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."
 
Dually-qualified in Hong Kong and in the UK, Lau is fluent in English and Mandarin.

“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," said Lau.

With the arrival of a dozen lateral hires, the firm’s global energy team has doubled in size over the past two years. It is building on its dispute platform to cover a range of transactional matters including corporate, finance, projects and infrastructure.