• Advising, as common counsel, the export credit agencies, multi-lateral lenders and commercial bank lenders in connection with the project financing of the US$20 billion Sakhalin II (Phase 2) LNG Project in Russia’s Far East;
• Advising the international lead arrangers on the NLNG project in Nigeria, with a particular focus on lenders’ risk analysis of the gas supply and LNG sale and purchase agreements;
• Advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on project financings in the energy, transport infrastructure and industrial sectors in Russia, Central Asia and eastern Europe;
• Advising the International Finance Corporation on project financings in India, Egypt, Turkey and Russia;
• Advising the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund on power project financings in Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda;
• Advising sponsors, project companies and borrowers in the metals & mining and telecommunications sectors on project and other secured financings in India, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and North Africa;
• Advising a Western European sponsor on its motorway project joint ventures in Russia;
• Advising The Coca-Cola Company in the expansion and restructuring of a global joint venture with Nestlé S.A.;
• Advising the majority shareholder of a bidder in the United Kingdom 3G spectrum auction;
• Advising the strategic investor in the restructuring of a telecommunications joint venture between a Baltic state and the strategic investor; and
• Advising the South African government in the US$1.2 billion privatisation of Telkom S.A.

Education
B.A. Hons, Dalhousie University, 1984
LL.B., McGill University, 1988

Publications, Speeches and Other Experience
Legal Bottleneck Can be Eased by Lowering Bar on Foreign Firms, Financial Times, May 2007
Master Class on Multi-Sourced Project Finance, India Energy Infrastructure Finance & Development Forum, New Delhi, February 2007
Infrastructure Project Finance in India: Recent Developments, BNA Special Report "Doing Business in India," August 2006
The NHAI's Model Concession Agreement, Asian Development Bank Workshop on Public Private Partnership for Highway Development in India, New Delhi, December 2005
Oilfield Project Finance in Russia Outside the PSA Regime, Project Finance International, February 2003
Getting the Deal Through – Insolvency and Restructuring 2001 (chapter author for chapter on Russian Federation)
Legal Opinions in transition countries, EBRD's Law in Transition, Summer 1996
Developing a New EBRD Product: A Case Study on Interpreting the EBRD Agreement, (1995) 41 McGill Law Journal No. 1

Citizenship
British and Canadian