Tom Wilkinson
Biography
Overview
Tom is an associate in the Project Development and Finance practice in our London office. Tom has experience acting for both sponsors and lenders on a range of project financings and other structured finance transactions.
Tom joined the Firm as a trainee in 2016 and qualified in 2018, after spending six months on secondment in the Firm's Singapore office.
Experience
Representation of African Development Bank (AfDB), Trade and Development Bank and Finnfund as lenders on the financing of the 35MW geothermal power project in Kenya. Menengai is a greenfield geothermal project and part of the first phase of the wider Menengai complex, one of the largest geothermal fields being developed in Kenya.
Representation of the lenders on the financing of the US$540 million Indonesia Government Multifunction Satellite Public Private Partnership (PPP) Project.
Representation of a syndicate of banks on the project financing of a new satellite for a Malaysian operator, with proposed credit support from major ECAs.
Representation of DNB Bank ASA as mandated lead arranger and lender on the financing of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission. The project, which will benefit from support from the Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency (GIEK), is being executed and will be operated by Space Norway, a state-owned limited company that is managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. Space Norway is building and launching two satellites designed to operate in highly elliptical orbits to offer mobile broadband coverage to civilian, government and military users in the Arctic.
Representation of Vale S.A. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. on the development and US$2.73 billion financing of the landmark Nacala Corridor Railway and Port Project, an integrated and transformative infrastructure project supporting growth along a regional corridor shared by two countries, Mozambique and Malawi.
