Mitchell Silk

Partner

New York

Mitchell is a projects partner and head of the U.S. China group in the New York office. Mitchell concentrates on banking, project finance and direct investment matters and has significant experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He advised on many of China’s landmark project financings in a number of sectors and on China’s largest investment in Colombia, which was in the energy sector, as well as on major wind, solar, gas, coal and nuclear power project acquisitions and financings in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa. He has considerable private investment funds experience and as fund counsel to numerous sponsors on the structuring, formation, marketing and financing of a number of international real assets funds in the property, infrastructure and energy and mining sectors. He also regularly advises large pension and other funds on their fund investments and co-investments. Mitchell is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.

Professional qualifications

Admitted: Bar of the State of Pennsylvania, 1987

Admitted: Bar of Washington, D.C., 1989

Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 1990

Academic qualifications

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Law, Beijing University (awarded a U.S. National Academy of Sciences fellowship), 1987

J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 1986

B.S.F.S., cum laude, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, 1983

National Taiwan Normal University, 1979–1980

Published work

‘Is China Good For Latin America?’, Latin Lawyer

‘Is China Taking Over the World?’, Chicago Journal of International Law

‘Hola Comrade: Latin American Firms Prepare for the Chinese Gold Rush’, Latin Lawyer, September 2005, with Richard Malish

‘Financing Options for PRC Water Projects’, The China Business Review, July-August 2000, with Simon Black

‘Case Study – Chengdu No. 6 Water Plant’, Project Finance International, 23rd February, 2000, with Simon Black

Taiwan Global Trade and Investment Law, Oxford University Press, 1994

Numerous chapters and articles on project finance, water and power development, banking law, international law, Chinese law and the protection of intellectual property rights