Stern & Company Limited

i established stern & co in hong kong in 2004 after leaving hsbc (by choice…!) as a director in its investment banking team. my first mandate was to advise siemens on its bids for rail projects in greater china: typically a combination of equipment supply, equity investment and debt structuring. siemens won more than us$1bn of successful contracts through these bids in 2004-06. in infrastructure i’ve since worked with private sector developers, investors and government bodies on projects in asia and the arabian gulf. major transactions include the bangkok skytrain (pictured above); china's us$15bn west-east gas pipeline and its first lng terminal; some of the gulf's largest petrochemicals projects; and the madinah airport ppp in saudi arabia . more recently i work with smes and scale-up companies on capital raising, joint ventures and partnerships, as a strategic advisor from “the idea” through negotiating and closing term sheets with investors. i've lived and worked in london, tokyo,