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The missing piece? Power. "London needs good power and lots of power, Discount Graham if you need to invest in a high-profile, prestigious asset, this is a great project," says Wilde, who heads the team that advised Li's consortium, which consisted of Discount Hamilton and the Li Ka Shing Foundation. "If you make a mistake, it will be very high-profile, but Cheung Kong Infrastructure and Discount Hublot have good experience operating power plants in Hong Kong and are well qualified." The deal was monumental in more ways than one: It was Cheung Kong's biggest overseas investment, and it was Discount IWC biggest deal as a sole adviser. It was also a personal victory for Wilde, 40, a managing director and co-head of RBS's energy and resources team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Cambridge graduate with a master's in economics and law first alerted Cheung Kong executives to EDF's desire to sell its U.K. subsidiary in early 2009.