Bio

Daniel Lin is a co-managing partner of Sidley Austin Foreign Law Joint Enterprise and his practice focuses on energy, infrastructure and general corporate transactions. He regularly advises Asia-based utilities, trading companies, EPC, general corporate and financial institutions on the development, acquisition, and disposal of energy and infrastructure-related projects, including conventional power and renewable energy projects. Daniel also has extensive experience advising lenders on financing the development and acquisition of these projects. In addition, Daniel is active in advising on Japan out-bound and in-bound M&A transactions in a number of other sectors. Daniel’s experience in project and energy matters has been highly valued by clients and he has been recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific in the foreign lawyer league table in Japan. Chambers notes that: “Daniel is customer-oriented and is always highly efficient.”, “He has a lot of knowledge and performs beyond our expectation.”, and provides “prompt and reasonable advice”. Daniel speaks fluent Japanese and Chinese.