Peter Corne joined Eversheds in 2006, and is the Managing Director of the Shanghai office. He has been based in Shanghai since 1996, working first at Simmons & Simmons from 1996 to 2000, and then at Linklaters from 2000 to 2006. Qualified to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong, New South Wales and Victoria, he has specialized in the area of Chinese corporate, commercial and regulatory practice for many years, and more recently in the area of global warming and renewable energy, which encompasses areas ranging from wind, biomass, biofuels and hydro, to energy saving, cleaner coal and geothermal.

He acted for a Japanese consortium in 2005 in the largest Clean Development Mechanism Project (under the Kyoto Protocol) in the world to that time in Zhejiang Province, and for Mitsui & Co in a CDM Project involving the capture of coal bed methane gases in North China. Most recently, he acted for Anshan Iron and Steel in one of the largest CDM Projects of 2008, an energy conservation project generating 13 Million tons of carbon credits worth EURO 150 Million.

In addition to his expertise in CDM and renewable energy, is recognized as a leading practitioner in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and equity and asset acquisitions of foreign-invested enterprises and State-owned enterprises.

 
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