
Brendan Quinn

Brendan Quinn
He is widely considered to be one of the best project finance practitioners in the country.
Biography
Brendan Quinn is a member of the Global Project Development and Finance Group and based in Melbourne.
Brendan has extensive project and project financing experience in the power, renewables, natural resources, oil & gas and infrastructure sectors across Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has worked in both common and civil law jurisdictions and has experience in many forms of finance including commercial debt, export credit, multilateral and capital markets.
He has worked in Hong Kong and London, and is recognised as one of Asia-Pacific's leading project and project finance lawyers by Chambers, IFLR1000, "Best of the Best", Who's Who Legal, PLC Finance and Asia's Leading Lawyers.
This includes being ranked as one of only three "Band 1" Project Finance Lawyers in Australia (Chambers) and as "Lawyer of the Year" in Project Finance and Development in Australia by Best Lawyers.
Experience
Global Power Generation portfolio financing
Advised Global Power Generation on a A$2.3 billion portfolio financing facility to support the development of its 1.8 GW portfolio of solar, wind and battery storage projects in Australia.
Changfang & Xidao:
Acting for the sponsors and borrower on the US$3billion development, project financing and equity sell down of the 589MW Changfang & Xidao Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan. This is one of the largest OSW project financings in Taiwan to date and was awarded, amongst other things, Asia Renewables Deal of the Year 2020 (PFI).
Greater Changhua 4 Offshore Wind Farm
Advised the finance parties, comprising export credit agencies and commercial lenders, on the US$1.6 billion project financing of the 583MW Greater Changhua 4 Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan, as part of Ørsted's 50 percent equity divestment to Cathay Life.
Jeonnam 1
Acting for the sponsors on the development and project financing for the 96MW Jeonnam 1 Offshore Wind Farm in South Korea. This project will be the first project financed wind farm in South Korea.
Star of the South
Acting for the sponsors on the development of the 2000MW Star of the South offshore wind farm in Australia.
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures portfolio finance
Advised Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) Australia on the A$1.2 billion portfolio financing of eight PV plants with a total installed capacity of nearly 1GW and the greenfield financing of FRV Australia's first stand-alone BESS project.
MidOcean Energy acquisition of LNG interests in Australia
MidOcean Energy (MidOcean), a liquefied natural gas company formed and managed by EIG, on its acquisition of Tokyo Gas' interests in the Australian Gorgon LNG, Pluto LNG and Queensland Curtis LNG projects.
Perdaman Karratha Urea Plant
Advised Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers Pty Ltd on the development and financing of the US$4.2 billion greenfield Karratha Urea Plant in Western Australia. The Karratha Urea Plant is poised to be Australia’s first facility that will process natural gas into ammonia and produce nitrogen-based fertilizer urea.
The deal won several awards, including IJGlobal 2023 Asia-Pacific "Energy Transition Deal of the Year – Manufacturing", and PFI 2023 Asia-Pacific "Industrial Deal of the Year".
Yunlin Project
Advising the export credit agencies and financiers on the 640MW Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan. This €2.7b project financing was a landmark deal in Taiwan as the first large scale offshore wind farm and received a host of awards at the time of financial close including Asia Renewables Deal of the Year 2019 (PFI) and Overall Deal of the Year 2019 (Trade Export Finance).
Phil-Tower Consortium
We have acted as legal advisers to Macquarie Capital, the advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group, in connection with its investment in Phil-Tower Consortium Inc (PhilTower) to support PhilTower’s acquisition of up to 1,350 towers from Globe Telecom.
Onslow Haul Road acquisition
Advised Natixis, Deutsche Bank AG and Standard Chartered Bank as mandated lead arrangers, underwriters and bookrunners to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, a private infrastructure investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management, on its proposed acquisition of 49 percent of the Onslow Iron Road Trust from Mineral Resources Limited for up to AUD$1.3 billion.