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Energy Experience
- Advising MISC Berhad (MISC) as the borrower on a US$415m limited-recourse syndicated term loan facility to finance the FPSO Kikeh Project jointly owned and operated by MISC and SBM, offshore Sabah, Malaysia
- Advising Excelerate Energy on the commercial agreements for a unique gas project in Teesside, which will see the region become a major centre for LNG and thus increase the natural gas supply in the UK. Excelerate Energy has invested in 3 customised ships with another 2 on order which transport LNG but have the capability to convert LNG to natural gas on board if required, which is relatively new technology giving substantial flexibilty to offtake options
- Acting for Bluewater in the negotiation and documentation of their US$850m secured revolving credit facility involving lead arranger ING, Bluewater and six major oil companies. The firm has represented Bluewater since 1994, and this credit facility is the culmination of a series of complex structured debt, lease and bond financings which Bluewater has successfully implemented to expand its floating production and other core business over that period
- Advising Shanghai LNG Company Ltd on its LNG import terminal project which includes LNG purchase tender and contract negotiations and shipping arrangements
- Advising Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company Ltd on its import terminal project which includes, LNG purchase tender and contract negotiations, terminal and shipping arrangements. The CNOOC-led Guangdong project, which achieved industry-acknowledged "mould breaking" LNG purchase terms and establishment of a joint Sino-Australian shipping venture which will utilise the first LNG ships to be built in China through an innovative LNG acquisition and shipping tender conducted in 2002, started operation in 2006
- Advising the Government of Cyprus as part of a consortium with MW Kellogg Ltd and Gas Strategies on a BOT tender for the construction and operation of an LNG and petroleum products import terminal project and related regulatory issues in Cyprus
- Advising Matrix on 21 UK limited liability partnerships on their participation in a €1.13bn wind farm portfolio refinancing, involving the sale of four LLPs with windfarm projects in Germany, the reorganisation of lease and finance arrangements for 16 LLPs with wind farm projects in Italy and the prepayment of mezzanine finance provided by another LLP
- Advising the Viridis Clean Energy Group on its acquisition and financing of a 60 MW portfolio of thirty-five landfill gas power projects in the UK for a total enterprise value of £108m
- Advising Plambeck Neue Energien AG on the sale to Babcock & Brown of 30 German wind farms totalling 300 MW to be constructed between 2006 and 2008 with a transaction volume of ca €400m
- Advising BNP Paribas as lenders counsel in relation to a portfolio financing of wind farm assets in Germany where the Enertrag Group are the borrowers
Steven Burkill, Bangkok
Ken Cheung, Singapore
Thomas Hollenhorst, Hamburg
John Imhof, New York
Chris Lowe, Singapore
Laurence Martinez-Bellet, Paris
Virginia Murray, Athens
Anna Soroko, London
Evan Stergoulis, London
Douglas Wardle, London
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