White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Adrian Lawrence

Practice Experience

Adrian Lawrence is an associate in our Hong Kong office. He has experience in banking, corporate, capital markets and project finance transactions and has previously worked in our London office and our Moscow office.

Representative transactions include advising:

The mandated lead arrangers (Bank of China, Standard Chartered Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Calyon, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Standard Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) in the US$1.5 billion acquisition financing for COSL Norwegian AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited, an affiliate of CNOOC Ltd, in connection with its US$2.5 billion acquisition of Awilco Offshore ASA, a Norwegian oil and gas drilling contractor;
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and the commercial lenders (The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Standard Chartered Bank) in relation to a US$360 million methanol project in Brunei, the first international project financing in Brunei Darussalam;
China Development Bank (CDB) in the limited recourse financing of telecommunication and infrastructure projects and corporate lending to telecommunication and infrastructure companies throughout Africa, Asia and Central Europe;
HSH Nordbank AG on the financing of a Boeing B737-700 Aircraft for China Eastern Airlines;
A Chinese energy corporation in a reserve-base lending structure in connection with its interest in various oil fields;
International Finance Corporation in relation to the grant of loans of up to US$30 million to Jiangsu SHD New Materials Co., Ltd., Weihai Blue Star New Technology Glass Co., Ltd. and Beijing Qinchang Glass Co., Ltd., as borrowers, Chinese subsidiaries of China Glass Holdings Limited (Hong Kong). The loans will be used for financing projects to improve their energy efficiency and other aspects of their environmental performance, and to manufacture more energy efficient products;
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in relation to its ongoing Trade Facilitation Programme that promotes foreign trade with EBRD’s countries of operations from central Europe to central Asia. The Programme has guaranteed and financed more than 6,000 foreign trade transactions totalling in excess of €3.3 billion;
As common counsel, the export credit agencies, multilateral lenders, and commercial bank lenders in connection with the US$20 billion project financing of the Sakhalin II (Phase 2) LNG Project in Russia;
Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.) on its Rule 144A/Regulation S high yield offering of US$250 million 8.625% Senior Notes due 2013, the first high yield bond issued by a Pakistani corporate issuer to date (underwritten by ABN AMRO and Deutsche Bank);
Hess Corporation on a $25 million acquisition in the Russian oil & gas sector in Russia's Volga-Urals region;
KONE Corporation, a major international elevator company, on a joint venture arrangement with a major Russian elevator company, and assisting with structuring its Russian operations, including production arrangements;
The sponsors, Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Qatargas Inc., on construction aspects in relation to the US$11.2 billion Qatargas II LNG Project in Qatar;
Nomura International PLC in relation to SVG Diamond Private Equity PLC (a collateralised fund obligation ultimately backed by interests in private equity); and
A contractor in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings in respect of disputes arising from the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in South America.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2004
Solicitor of England and Wales, 2005
Registered as Foreign Lawyer for the Law Society of Hong Kong

Education
LPC, College of Law, York, 2003
LLM, Economics and Law, University of Manchester, 2001
LLB, University College London, London, 2000

Languages
English

Citizenship
British