Ekaterina Logvinova

Ekaterina Logvinova

Associate, London
Ekaterina Logvinova
Ekaterina Logvinova

Ekaterina Logvinova

Associate, London
Ekaterina Logvinova

Biography

Ekaterina is a senior associate in the Project Development and Finance Group based in London. She regularly represents clients on financing transactions and has significant experience working on project finance, trade finance, acquisition finance and other secured financing transactions, involving international commercial lenders, export credit agencies and development financial institutions, and developers.

Ekaterina also covers ESG workstreams within EMEA project financing transactions.

Experience

Representation of the lenders on the bifurcated stapled financings for Shell's onshore and shallow water assets in Nigeria acquired by Renaissance Africa Energy, a consortium of five Nigerian oil and gas companies.

Representation of existing lenders on a number of infrastructure finance projects, including as part of the US$1.7 billion refinancing of VTTI, a global leader in independent energy that now develops the critical energy infrastructure needed to move towards a carbon neutral future.

Advising the Lenders on Mozambique LNG project, a landmark US$20+ billion project financing of Mozambique's first onshore LNG development.

Representation (ongoing) of Ivanhoe Mines in connection with US$450 million project financing, including senior debt, of the Platreef platinum-nickel-palladium-gold-copper-rhodium project in South Africa. The transaction includes Orion Mine Finance US$300 million streaming facility. A $750 million phase 2 financing is underway.

Representation of export credit agencies, multilateral lenders and commercial bank lenders in connection with the US$20 billion project financing of the Sakhalin II (Phase 2) Integrated Oil and Gas Project in Russia.

Representation of the joint venture project company, Nord Stream AG, and the sponsors in the €9 billion construction and development of the Nord Stream Pipeline.

Representation of lenders on US$603.2 million syndicated financing for the completion of the first start-up complex of the Taishet aluminium smelter, owned by Russian aluminium producer RUSAL. This deal won the Europe Mining Deal of the Year award by IJ Global Awards in 2021.

Representation of the lenders on a new US$820 million unsecured finance facility provided to EuroChem Group AG, a leading global fertilizer company.

Representation of a syndicate of international banks on debut pre-export financing of up to US$250 million to PhosAgro, one of the world's leading vertically-integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers.

Representation of EuroChem, Russia's largest mineral fertilizer producer, on a US$1.3 billion pre-export finance from a syndicate of banks.

Representation of EuroChem on a project financing of up to US$750 million from a syndicate of international and Russian banks in connection with its Usolskiy potash project located within Russia's Verkhnekamskoe deposit, one of the world's largest potash deposits.

Qualified to practice law in the Russian Federation
Master's Degree in Law, Law Faculty
Moscow State University for International Relations
Bachelor's Degree in Law
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Law Faculty
Russian
English

"She is committed to help you to understand what you need and provide the service," a client says.
Chambers, Banking & Finance, 2022

A source describes her as "very hard-working, very hands-on," and another client adds: "She really helped with the commercial side of the negotiations." Chambers, Banking & Finance, 2021

Service areas