Claude Jiang is a partner in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Projects & Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, and Finance Practice Groups. His practice focuses on energy and infrastructure related project development and finance.
Claude has extensive experience working on both the project side and the financing side of transactions and has been involved in a variety of transactions from different project aspects including traditional project financing, structuring for projects without a financing component, project-related M&A as well as project-based bond offerings. Claude has led cross-border and cross-practice teams on several large-scale transactions.
Claude is recommended as a key lawyer for Banking and Finance, Projects as well as Energy in Singapore by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026. He was named Project Finance Lawyer of the Year – China by the Finance Monthly Magazine in 2017. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Claude was with his previous firm’s project development and finance team for 13 years based in Singapore and Shanghai, and he was an associate in the project finance team of a leading international firm for 4 years.
Claude received his Master of Laws from the Indiana University School of Law in 2007 and earned his Bachelor of Laws from the Nanjing University in 2006. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and is qualified to practice in China. He is fluent in English and Mandarin.
Representative Experience*
- The mandated lead arrangers, senior and equity bridge lenders, agency banks and hedge providers, in the financing of five utility-scale solar photovoltaic projects, of which two are to be located in Afif (“Afif 1” and “Afif 2”), and three in Bisha, Humaij and Khulis respectively; cumulatively, these Projects will have capacity of 12,000 MW across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The portfolio will form an integral part of Saudi Arabia’s National Renewable Energy Program, led and supervised by the Ministry of Energy, and reflects the Public Investment Fund’s commitment to develop 70% of the Kingdom’s renewable energy target capacity by 2030. Awarded “Global Power Deal of the Year” at the PFI Awards 2025
- Cathay Life as investor on its project financing of the 20-year US$1.6 billion stapled financing for the 583 MW Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan with a total project cost of approximately €3 billion. It is the first offshore wind financing guaranteed by the National Credit Guarantee Administration, and the first time that state-owned First Commercial Bank has taken the role as an export-import bank (T-Exim) facility agent in an offshore wind financing project. Awarded “APAC Power Deal of the Year” at the PFI Awards 2024 , “Offshore Wind Deal of the Year” at the IJGlobal Investor Awards APAC 2025, “Finance Deal of the Year” at the ALM/Law.com Asia Legal Awards 2025, and “Renewable Energy Deal of the Year: Offshore Wind” at the The Asset Triple-A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2025
- DITO Telecommunity Corporation, as borrower and developer, on the US$3.9 billion long-term financing of its Philippines-wide 4G/5G-ready telecommunication network project, one of the largest project finance telecoms deals in Asia to date. Awarded “Best Project Finance Deal of the Year – Southeast Asia” and received a commendation for “Best Infrastructure Deal of the Year – Southeast Asia” at the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2023 and awarded “Telecoms Deal of the Year – APAC” at the IJGlobal Awards 2023
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, ING Bank NV, DBS Bank Ltd, Bank of China Limited, Mizuho Bank Limited and Société Générale, on the MIGA-covered refinancing of the 220 MW Bhola combined cycle gas turbine project in Bangladesh. Awarded “Power Deal of the Year (Bangladesh)” at The Asset Triple A Infrastructure Awards 2023 and “Asia Pacific Refinance Deal of the Year – Power” at the IJGlobal Awards 2022
- Masdar and PJBI, a subsidiary of Indonesian state-owned offtaker PT PLN, on the development and financing of a 145 MW floating solar PV project over the Cirata reservoir in Indonesia. It is the first floating solar project in Indonesia, the country’s largest solar plant and the biggest floating solar project in Southeast Asia. Awarded “Renewable Energy Deal of the Year (Indonesia)” at The Asset Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2022 and “Asia Pacific Solar Deal of the Year 2021” by Project Finance International
- A consortium of lenders including KfW, Standard Chartered Bank, Riyad Bank, Bank Saudi Fransi and Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation (Apicorp) supporting ACWA’s development and financing of Al Dur 2 IWPP with a 1500 MW natural gas fired power facility and a 50 MIGD desalination facility in Bahrain. Awarded “MENA Refinancing Water Deal of the Year” at the IJGlobal Awards 2020
* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.
Publications
- “Sun is shining: the role of solar power in the Middle Eastern energy mix”, Energy and the Middle East, Globe Law and Business, 2026
- “Bhola 2 IPP – A Bangladesh milestone”, PFI Yearbook, 2023
- “Eurasian power sector investment by China”, Financier Worldwide, 2018
- “Project Finance in China”, Redback Reporter, 2017
- “China Sector of the Project Finance Journal”, Law Business Research, 2017
- “China Sector of the Project Finance Journal”, Law Business Research, 2016
- “China Sector of the Project Finance Journal”, Law Business Research, 2015
Speaking Engagements
- Guest speaker, PPP structure forum in the Philippines in association with the Commercial Law Development Programme (CLDP) funded by the US Department of State, December 2023
- Guest speaker, PPP structure forum in Bangladesh in association with the Commercial Law Development Programme (CLDP) funded by the US Department of State, May 2023
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Indiana University - 2007 Master of Laws (LL.M.)
- Nanjing University - 2006 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
Admissions:
- New York Bar