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The promotions, effective from January 2023, will help the firm to address opportunities arising from strong M&A activity in TMT in Southeast Asia, and from investments into renewable energy projects in Australia.

The law firm has poached Crystal Chen from Linklaters, to ramp up its strategic effort across the energy and infrastructure sectors in the Greater Bay Area and the wider APAC region.

While political instability and conflict may mean that some markets miss out on the capital being deployed across the energy and infrastructure sectors, Mayer Brown partner, Myles Mantle told FinanceAsia that there is plenty keeping the Japan team busy.

China's Belt and Road Initiative exacerbates debt risks for poorer nations with weak governance but it is unfair to paint China as a loan shark, US think tanks say.

China hopes a new framework might help countries avoid unsustainable levels of Belt and Road-related debt. But, as Malaysia has shown, some hard bargaining may also be in order.

Public-private partnerships can be an efficient way to develop infrastructure. But private investors need to be careful when selecting projects.

At a conference, senior executives of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank said they were keen to work more with pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.

Michael Barrow, head of the ADB's private sector unit, explains how the multilateral lender is switching course to mobilise private sector capital to help build the region's infrastructure.

The $50 billion multilateral lender of the Brics countries wants to support more private ventures, its CFO tells FinanceAsia. That could help bridge Asia's $900b infrastructure gap.