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Summary
Sandra Sinclair-Hughes joined Watson,
Farley & Williams in April 2005. She is dual qualified as a solicitor
in England and Wales and as an attorney in South Africa, and has over 10
years experience advising on a wide range of international matters. These
include asset and project finance work, including shipping finance, as
well as major offshore oil and gas, and LNG, projects, and the related
procurement contracts, shipbuilding and conversion contracts, lease and
charter agreements and operating and maintenance contracts. Sandra has
advised international corporations, including oil and gas companies, ship
owners and shipbuilders, and financial institutions.
Recent Experience
- Acting for MPC Capital, one of the German
KG houses, in relation to an equity investment in a project for the construction
by SBM of a semi submersible drilling unit and long term chartering of
the unit to Petrobas for employment offshore Brazil at a total project
cost of about US$600 m. Senior debt will be provided by a syndicate
arranged by West LB and led by IDB. The project sponsors, Delba
and Interoil, are Brazilian companies.
- Acted for a syndicate of Norwegian banks
in relation to a US$100 million loan facility to finance the construction
and acquisition of five product and chemical tankers under construction
in Korea.
- Advised Höegh LNG and its joint venture
partner, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, on the commercial agreements, including the
shipbuilding contracts and long-term time charterparties, in relation to
two LNG shuttle and regasification vessels, specially designed to service
the Neptune offshore LNG import terminal to be constructed and operated
by Suez owned Neptune LNG LLC in Massachusetts Bay. The SRVs are equipped
to store, transport and vapourise LNG into natural gas via an offshore
mooring buoy at the Neptune offshore terminal into a sub-sea pipeline for
direct export to customers.
- Advised Golar LNG in connection with the
submission of their bid, and on successful award of the bid, assisting
the clients in the negotiations with Petrobras of the terms of the long-term
time charterparties and operating and service agreements in respect of
two LNG floating storage and regasification vessels (FSRUs) for Petrobras’
LNG project for delivery of regasified LNG at terminal piers located
respectively
at Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro and the Port of Peçem, located in north-eastern
Brazil, to provide natural gas to the shore pipeline grid.
- Advised ING Bank and CEXIM in relation
to a US$60 million loan facility to finance the acquisition of a fleet
of newbuilding container vessels by FESCO under construction at Jinling
Shipyard in China.
- Advised K-Line in relation to the preparation
and submission of their bid, and the negotiations of the long-term time
charters, for the Indonesian Tangguh project.
- Advised bidders on contracts to provide
LNG vessels for Suez LNG's Yemen project and on related commercial and
financing arrangements.
Education and Qualifications
| 2002
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Qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of England and Wales
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| 1999
| LL.M., Maritime Law, University of Cape
Town, South Africa
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| 1994
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Qualified as an Attorney of the Supreme
Court of South Africa
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| 1991
| LLB, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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| 1998
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BA (in Law and English), University of
Cape Town, South Africa |
Languages
| German
| Fluent
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| Afrikaans
| Fluent
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| French
| Basic
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| Dutch
| Basic |
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