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London Experience
CORPORATE
- Purchase and acquisition of the Wallem Shipmanagement group and related private equity arrangements
- Viridis Clean Energy Group on its acquisition of a UK company with a portfolio of thirty-five landfill gas power projects
- NextGenTel on its fundraising in the UK and its subsequent listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange
- Hardman Resources Ltd on its AIM admission and subsequent share placings and a rights issue
FINANCE
- Advising Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation in connection with the leasing of rolling stock on the WestRail extension in the New Territories
- Advising a European operating lessor on the acquisition of Boeing 737 aircraft and subsequent leasing to a Mexican operator
- Advising ICX Corporation, Inc. in its role as an equity investor in a US$100 million QTE lease of a telecommunications network to Connect Austria Gesellschaft Fur Telekommunikation GmbH
LITIGATION
- Advising Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation in connection with the leasing of rolling stock on the WestRail extension in the New Territories
- US$200 million LCIA arbitration arising from the termination of a contract for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning ("EPIC") of an oil and gas processing platform. Key issues included the EPIC contractor's safety breaches and breaches in relation to the staffing and completion of the work and the engineering and commissioning of the platform.
- Defending the Government of India in what has been described as the world's largest investment treaty arbitration. The multi-billion dollar claim concerns the Dabhol electricity power station in Maharashtra which was built by a US consortium led by Enron, GE and Bechtel. The claim is brought by Mauritian subsidiaries of the US corporations under a Bi-Lateral Investment Treaty between Mauritius and India.
- Acting on the defence of a £130 million judgment against the Republic of Congo. Claim bought by US Vulture fund (Kensington) This is a leading case on sovereign liability and the ability to enforce English judgement against companies allegedly controlled by States
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