Benjamin Rodin

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Benjamin Rodin is an associate in the Project Development and Finance Group in London. He joined the Firm as a trainee in 2021 during which time he spent six months in our Singapore office. He also completed a secondment to the investment banking legal team at Nomura in London.

Prior to his legal career, Benjamin worked in consulting at a Big Four firm in Moscow, Russia and Tbilisi, Georgia.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales
Education
LPC
BPP Law School
GDL
BPP Law School
MSc
The London School of Economics and Political Science
BA
University College London
Languages
English
Russian

Experience

Representative experience includes:

Finance

Representation of DP World Limited and its subsidiary DP World Middle East Company Limited on a SAR1.28 billion project financing for the development and upgrade of the South Container Terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port located in Saudi Arabia.

Representation of the export credit agencies and a large syndicate of international and Taiwanese commercial banks on the restructuring of wpd's 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan.

Representation of a UK gas pipeline operator on the refinancing of its existing debt.

Project development

Representation of Saudi Aramco on its acquisition of a 10 percent interest in Shenzhen-listed Rongsheng Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (Rongsheng) for RMB24.6 billion (US$3.6 billion).

Representation of a petrochemical supplier in respect of a lubricants supply agreement.

Representation of the government of a South Asian state on contractual interpretation in respect of a construction agreement for a municipal waste facility.