Paul is a partner in the Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Group in Tokyo. He has experience in banking and project finance transactions, with a particular focus on oil & gas and power project financings.

Paul spent nine months on secondment to the Project Finance team at HSBC.

Representative transactions include:

• Representation of Nord Stream AG in connection with the construction and US$6.5 billion financing of Phase I and Phase II of the Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea;
• Representation of the sponsors in connection with the US$ multi-billion Barzan gas project to be located in Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar;
• Representation of the commercial and ECA lenders on the US$2.5 billion 1,200 MW heavy fuel oil fired IPP sponsored by Acwa Power and Kepco in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia;
• Assisting in the representation of the En+ Group in connection with the US$1 billion restructuring of its syndicated and bilateral corporate financing;
• Assisting in the representation of the Sponsors, Qatar Petroleum and Shell on the US$6 billion Qatargas 4 LNG project financing;
• Assisting in the representation of the Sponsors, Qatar Petroleum and ConocoPhillips, on the US$5.8 billion Qatargas 3 LNG project financing;
• Assisting in the representation of the Sponsors, Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil and Total, on the US$11.2 billion Qatargas 2 LNG project in Qatar;
• Assisting in the representation of the lenders in connection with a solar power project in the Czech Republic;
• Assisting in the representation of the international and Nigerian lead arrangers in the US$1.06 billion financing (including US Ex-Im, ECGD, SACE and Gerling NCM covered facilities) of the fourth and fifth trains of the Nigeria LNG Plus Project;
• Assisting in the representation of Banco Santander, BNP Paribas and Société Générale as lead arrangers in the award-winning US$1.7 billion financing of the Odebrecht Norbe VIII and IX offshore oil drillships, to be chartered to Petrobras in Brazil;
• Assisting in the representation of EBRD in connection with its acquisition of an equity interest in OOO Toyota Motor Manufacturing to finance the entry of Toyota Motor Corporation as a car manufacturer in Russia;
• Assisting in the representation of VTBE on two property-backed financings to international real estate companies in the Russian Federation; and
• Assisting in the representation of China Development Bank on a vendor financing to a new mobile telecommunication operator in Poland to finance the first phase of construction of its universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) infrastructure.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 2004

Education
BA (Hons), (Law with French Law), Keble College, Oxford University, 2000
Diplôme d’études juridiques, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, 1999

Languages
English
French

Citizenship
British