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Stephen Harder has over 20 years' experience in project finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings in the US, Europe and Asia. Stephen is based in China, where his recent experience includes water, power and oil and gas infrastructure projects, cross border mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, privatisation and direct investment issues. Previously in Europe, he was advisor to the Governments of Poland and Russia with respect to sovereign debt restructuring and mass privatisation programs.  Stephen is listed as a leading individual for China projects in Chambers, The World’s Leading Lawyers.

Princeton University (BA in Chinese Studies 1979)
Columbia University Graduate School of Business (MBA 1986)
Columbia University School of Law (JD 1986)
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York in 1987
Associate White & Case, New York, Brussels and Warsaw 1986
Clifford Chance, Hong Kong 1995
Clifford Chance, Shanghai since 2001
Partner since 1995

Speaks Mandarin Chinese and English