Project Finance

Our key experience includes advising:

AES Meghnaghat Limited on the US$300 million project financing facilities for the Meghnaghat  450mw power station, the first large-scale independent power project in Bangladesh.

Arsenal Football Club in connection with the financing, real estate, planning and construction issues relating to its new stadium project.

Centrica on the offtake and financing arrangements for Rijnmond II Power project in the Netherlands.

Egypt LNG trains 1 and 2 in connection with the US$950 million project facilities for the first LNG Train for the Egyptian LNG Project (and the subsequent refinancing in 2005) in connection with the construction and project financing of a methanol facility at Damietta in Egypt.

Egyptian Methanex Methanol Company - advising the project company and project sponsors (Methanex Corporation and EGAS) on a pioneering methanol petrochemicals project, setting a new benchmark as the first Egyptian petrochemicals project to achieve financial close in the international project finance markets.

the Interconnector (consortium) on the US$842 million financing of an underwater pipeline and related compression and pumping facilities linking the UK and Continental Europe gas distribution systems.

Jarvis plc on its lengthy, and ultimately successful, refinancing and recapitalisation including advice on new funding arrangements for 14 outstanding PFI/UPP construction projects and the extension of its financing arrangements to March 2006.

on a large number of LNG projects across the world, including MLNG1, MLNG2, Woodside, OLNG, QLNG, Qatargas, QG4, ELNG 1 and 2.

Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB on project finance facilities for upstream developments offshore West Africa.

Wataniya Telecom on a US$490 million project financing for the establishment of a third mobile phone operator in Algeria. The financing is a combination of export credit and multilateral financing.