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 the ESG workstreams of White & Case's EMEA project financing transactions, including the environmental and social aspects of multi-billion-dollar projects.
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.
Representation of 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.
Representation of an international consortium led by Qatar-based Urbacon Concessions Investment, alongside Kalyon G.I.S. Energy, Cengiz Energy, and Power International (USA) on a US$7 billion project which entailed the development and operation of eight new power generation stations in Syria, with a total capacity of 5 GW. This landmark transaction represents a major step in Syria's efforts to rebuild its energy infrastructure and restore national power capacity after years of underinvestment and disruption.
Representation of the Republic of Zambia on a landmark debt-for-energy conversion involving the repurchase of approximately US$1.3 billion of outstanding bonds, funded in part by a US$600 million loan from the African Development Bank ("AfDB").
Representation of Etu Energias, S.A. (Etu Energias), a 100 percent Angolan-owned exploration and production company, on the acquisition and associated financing of a 20% working interest in Block 14 and a 10% working interest in Block 14K from Azule Energy.
Representation of Rincon Mining Pty Limited, acting through its Argentine branch, as borrower, and its parent company Rio Tinto Minerals Limited, as shareholder, on a US$1.175 billion project financing for a lithium brine development project located in the "Lithium Triangle" in the Salta province of Argentina.
Representation of Mercuria, one of the world's largest independent energy and commodity groups, on a strategic copper offtake and prepayment transaction with Eurasian Resources Group (ERG).
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 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 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 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.
"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