Biography
Yoon So is an associate in the Project Development and Finance Group in London. She is acting for both lenders and sponsors on international project financing and development matters, with a particular focus on the infrastructure, power, renewables and oil and gas sectors.
Experience
Representation of Saudi Aramco on its acquisition of a 50 percent interest in Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air Products Qudra, itself a joint venture between Air Products and Chemicals Inc and Vision Invest.
Representation of Highview Power, a long-duration energy storage pioneer with proprietary cryogenic energy storage technology, on a £300 million combined debt and equity investment for the first in its pipeline of commercial-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plants in the UK. The Carrington Liquid Air Energy Storage project has recently been awarded the “Market Impact Award” by IJ Global.
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 QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC as sponsors in connection with the US$4.4 billion financing for the development and construction of the Ras Laffan Petrochemical project, an integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. This deal has recently been recognised as "Middle East and Africa Petrochemical Deal of the Year" by Project Finance International 2023.