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"What do a U.S. lawyer and a Singaporean banker have in common? When it comes to infrastructure finance, Mitchell A. Silk and Seth Tan have just about seen it all. They have witnessed the inner workings of international development projects-ranging from bilateral economic agreements between countries to multibillion-dollar infrastructure financings-from both legal and financial angles. In alternating chapters, they share their experiences over the last several decades working on infrastructure projects on almost every continent and at the highest levels of government and corporate organizations. Infrastructure finance took off in the 1980s. Today, it is a major focus as the world grapples with the challenges of private capital mobilization to meet the giant global infrastructure funding gap. Mitchell A. Silk and Seth Tan were there for its growth into a giant industry. Praise for Dancing With Giants ""An extraordinary collection of real world experiences from the front lines of global infrastructure finance. Mitch Silk and Seth Tan, two leading practitioners of infrastructure finance over the past 30 years, illuminate the essential role of private investment in meeting the world's energy needs."" - Andr�s Gluski, President and CEO, The AES Corporation ""Infrastructure in the next 30 years may be very different from today or not yet exist as needs will change and technology advancement can offer new solutions. But the past can offer good principles to follow for future development. It is great to read about two practitioners, Mitch and Seth, who have lived and breathed infrastructure in the last 30 years."" - Marie Lam-Frendo, CEO, Global Infrastructure Hub (a G20 initiative)About the AuthorsMitchell A. Silk Mitchell is the immediate past Assistant Secretary for International Markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that position, Mitch designed and implemented an inter-agency growth initiative in international infrastructure finance, and the $94 billion CARES Act programs that benefitted over 700,000 American aviation industry workers. Prior to joining U.S. Treasury, Mitch was a senior partner in the global law practice of Allen & Overy in Hong Kong and New York, where he specialized in energy and infrastructure matters, asset management, and banking and finance. Mitch is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, and his favorite language of Yiddish. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He and his wife, Yocheved Rivka, are the proud parents of eight children and four grandchildren. Seth Tan Seth was most recently the head of Infrastructure Asia, a regional infrastructure facilitation office under the Singapore government. Initiatives he led include bringing top private sector companies to co-create bankable Asian infrastructure. Seth has worked in the infrastructure sector for 25 years, spanning a broad spectrum of infrastructure and a large geographical area (even economies further away from Asia like Zambia, Nigeria, and Ghana). Thanks to esteemed employers like BNP Paribas, Babcock and Brown, Standard Bank, and DBS Bank, Seth worked outside Singapore for 15 years and traveled to almost 80 cities across the globe. His favorite cities are Beijing (where he lived for nine years) and Singapore (home). He now lives in Singapore with his wife, Li Xiang, and their children, Zoey and Evan."

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Dancing With Giants uses engaging vignettes and market trends to provide a thoughtful dive into the legal, political, and financial intricacies of international infrastructure finance. - Philip Wood CBE QC Hon, author of the nine volumes in the series the Law and Practice of International Finance, Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Dancing With Giants takes readers inside some of the biggest infrastructure deals of the last several decades and you'll return with several important lessons learned. - Graham Vinter, Chair, Global Project Development and Finance Practice, Covington & Burling LLP Governments used to build and operate infrastructure. But this is not true anymore. We now need to rely more on the private sector to build and operate infrastructure around the world. Seth is one of few with extensive experience structuring and financing infrastructure projects in Asia in the private sector who joined a government organization to play a key role in setting a new direction. This book is very unique and I learned a lot from reading it. - Keiko Honda, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Insights from the past 30 years of infrastructure development in Asia present many important learnings for infrastructure today and tomorrow. The alternating stories between Seth and Mitch as they dance with the Giants makes it an interesting read. - Lim Chze Cheen, Director and Head, ASEAN Connectivity Division, ASEAN Secretariat Mitch Silk and Seth Tan artfully use the market developments and stories in Dancing With Giants to illustrate the importance of infrastructure finance to global growth. They also provide a timely reminder of what the word infrastructure really means and its power to advance human dignity and quality of life. - J. Steven Dowd, Former U.S. Executive Director, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and African Development Bank. Two lifetimes worth of rich battle experiences on this sometimes hair-tearing subject of Project Finance. - Pang Yee Ean, CEO Surbana Jurong Capital A thoroughly enjoyable personal account of the global energy and infrastructure journey that many of us have taken, which evokes many great memories while highlighting many important lessons learned along the way. - Nicholas Wong, Global Co-Head Worldwide Projects Group and Co-Head Global Financial Markets, Asia Pacific at Clifford Chance Growth in energy and infrastructure is essential to prosperity and access in Latin America and throughout the world. Dancing With Giants makes a fantastic case for the importance of the private sector, governments, and communities to work together on infrastructure projects that can improve the world. - Eliot Pedrosa, Immediate Past U.S. Executive Director, Inter-America Development Bank Dancing With Giants is a riveting firsthand account of project finance and infrastructure in a world of increasingly interconnected economies and governments. The authors demonstrate why infrastructure, and power projects in particular, are such important factors in global development, with lessons for the future. Well worth a read for any practitioner or development professional. - DJ Norquist, U.S. Executive Director, World Bank Group (2019-2021)

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Mitchell is the immediate past Assistant Secretary for International Markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that position, Mitch designed and implemented an inter-agency growth initiative in international infrastructure finance, and the $94 billion CARES Act programs that benefitted over 700,000 American aviation industry workers. Prior to joining U.S. Treasury, Mitch was a senior partner in the global law practice of Allen & Overy in Hong Kong and New York, where he specialized in energy and infrastructure matters, asset management, and banking and finance. Mitch is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, and his favorite language of Yiddish. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He and his wife, Yocheved Rivka, are the proud parents of eight children and four grandchildren. Seth was most recently the head of Infrastructure Asia, a regional infrastructure facilitation office under the Singapore government. Initiatives he led include bringing top private sector companies to co-create bankable Asian infrastructure. Seth has worked in the infrastructure sector for 25 years, spanning a broad spectrum of infrastructure and a large geographical area (even economies further away from Asia like Zambia, Nigeria, and Ghana). Thanks to esteemed employers like BNP Paribas, Babcock and Brown, Standard Bank, and DBS Bank, Seth worked outside Singapore for 15 years and traveled to almost 80 cities across the globe. His favorite cities are Beijing (where he lived for nine years) and Singapore (home). He now lives in Singapore with his wife, Li Xiang, and their children, Zoey and Evan.

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