LIANHE GLOBAL: A GIANT IN CHINA

Lianhe Ratings Global Limited (“Lianhe Global”) has rated 12 billion of US dollar bonds, making it the largest China offshore credit rating agency. Meanwhile, Lianhe Global has assigned and published global scale issuer credit ratings (all solicited) to nineteen issuers.

As a homegrown international rating agency, Lianhe Global possesses unique local insight and understanding about the Chinese government framework and business environment in which Chinese issuers operate, enabling us to provide investors a different perspective from the big three US rating agencies. More than 70% of our current employees used to work for the international rating agencies in Asia for a substantial period of time.

Lianhe Global is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lianhe Credit Information Service Co., Ltd. (“Lianhe Group”). Lianhe Group also owns China Lianhe Credit Rating Co., Ltd (“Lianhe Ratings”) which focuses on the Interbank Market and United Credit Ratings Co., Ltd. (“United Ratings”) which focuses on the exchange market in China. Together, we refer to them as Lianhe Capital Markets.

Lianhe Capital Markets is now one of the two largest credit rating agencies in China with more than 30% market share since its founding in 2000. As of December 2019, Lianhe Capital Markets had approximately 350 analysts covering a portfolio of 5,000 issuers ranging from corporates, LGFVs, and banks to structured finance products in China.