Investment banking is an emerging business vigorously developed by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). ICBC, with its prominent advantages in financial strength, information resources, services network, provides customers with efficient professional investment banking services. ICBC investment banking sectors, known for their high-quality project teams, provide various investment banking services such as restructuring and M & A,  banking syndicate loan management, direct investment and private equity, structured financing consultancy, asset securitization, credit assets transfer, corporate short-term financing bond management, corporate listing consultancy, asset management, corporate long-term financial consultancy, corporate fund and credit services and government and institution financial consultancy.

ICBC is the first domestic financial institution within the framework of commercial investment banking. Through years of practices, ICBC has successfully completed a number of quality projects and accumulated rich business experience. In restructuring and M & A field, ICBC has efficiently completed some important projects of “Bao Steel Group”, “Changyu Group”, “Triangle Group”, “Hengtong Chemical” and “Dingtian Technology”, among which, “Bao Steel Merged and Acquired Bayi Steel” was selected as one of the “Top 10 Strategic M&A Events in  2006” by Contemporary Manager, an authoritative domestic financial magazine; “Equity Transfer of Changyu Group” has been listed in “2005 China’s Top 10 M&A Events” by M&A Federation of the National Chamber of Commerce & Industry; “Bao Steel Merged and Acquired Shaoguan Steel and Guangdong Steel” was selected as one of the “Top 10 M&A Events 2008” by Security Daily and some other authoritative media in 2008. In banking syndicate loan, ICBC, as the initiator, has organized some banking syndicate loan projects with great influence in the world such as the syndicate loan for Hynix-ST Semiconductor involving USD 0.75 billion, the syndicate loan for “CNOOC-Shell South China Petrochemical Project” involving USD 2.6 billion, the international syndicate loan for debt restructuring of Yuehai Group involving 14 billion Hong Kong dollars; international syndicate loan to Shanghai Secco involving USD 2.7 billion, international syndicate loan for South Sea Petrochemical project involving USD 4.4 billion. Among them, the syndicate loan for Hynix-ST Semiconductor GSI Project involving USD 0.75 billion has won the “ Manufacturing Project Financing Annual Award 2006” organized by Euromoney; the syndicate loan for “CNOOC-Shell South China Petrochemical Project” involving USD 2.6 billion has won the “Best Project Financing Award 2004” organized by Emerging Market, UK and the “Best Project Financing Award 2003” appraised by Finance Asia, Singapore. All these help ICBC maintain its prominent advantage in domestic syndicated loan market. In the field of corporate debt financing instruments management, as the leading management institution, ICBC has successfully managed the issue of several short-term financing bonds and middle-term bills for a number of enterprises including The Ministry of Railways, China Netcom (Group) Co., Ltd, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. Ltd and China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Corporation, toping the underwriters for its underwriting circulation in 2008. In addition, ICBC provides comprehensive financial consultancy services for Yunnan and Shanxi Province Governments as well as Kunming Government so as to consolidate the relationship between the bank and governments and boost locally economic developments. ICBC creatively develops some investment banking products such as private equity and direct investment in order to provide a comprehensive solution to equity financing and debt financing for enterprises. In cooperation with other home and foreign agencies, ICBC has completed the first asset securitization project - Ningbo non-performing asset securitization project - in domestic commercial banks, accumulating precious experience in this field. Besides the above-mentioned project-based services, ICBC also designed some other investment banking services such as long-term financial consultancy as well as fund and credit services for enterprises, covering various information consultancy services.