Rob’s practice focuses on international corporate and finance transactions, including debt and equity advice to corporates and lending institutions.

Rob is a counsel on the energy and infrastructure team in London. He is a corporate and finance specialist and advises on cross-border debt and equity investments, M&A and restructuring, with a focus on emerging markets businesses located in Eastern Europe, CIS and Africa. Rob also advises financial intermediaries and companies listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and admitted to trading on AIM. Rob’s experience includes over two years of working within the Office of General Counsel of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he advised on a variety of debt and equity deals across a range of sectors and jurisdictions, and also advised on a significant number of donor financing agreements with the EU and other donors.

Relevant Experience

Rob’s recent experience includes advising:

• A secondment to the office of General Counsel of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as Senior Counsel in the Corporate and Donor Co-Financing team.
• International Finance Corporation, relation to English Law matters related to the subscription for a USD $150 million of bonds to be issued by TMB Thanachart, Thailand’s sixth-largest bank, comprised of $100 million of Green Bonds and $50 million of maritime sustainability bonds.
• International Finance Corporation, relation to English Law matters related to a loan of up to $100 million to Ngern Tid Lor Company Limited, a leading non-bank financial institution in Thailand.
• Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) on the provision of a corporate loan to the Public Power Corporation S.A. for an amount of €160 million with a five-year tenor for the purpose of financing PPC’s capital expenditure plan. This financing was the largest BSTDB operation to date.
• Asian Development Bank, KASIKORNBANK and responsibility Investments AG, in relation to English law matters, and as lenders’ counsel for the limited recourse project financing to Green Yellow Solar 1 (Thailand) Co., Ltd. The deal was recognized by The Asset Triple A Asia Infrastructure Awards in the 2022 Renewable Energy Deal of the Year - Thailand.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB) in connection with the Clean Technology Fund and KASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited, in relation to English law matters, on the first wind power and integrated battery storage project in Thailand.
• A company listed on the premium segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange in relation to a Prospectus approved by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and in relation to the publication of a Circular for a Class One Transaction.

• An international lender to finance new 40MWp and 63MWp solar plants in Kazakhstan to be constructed and operated by a leading Chinese manufacturer of solar modules and a follow-up restructuring as a result of a proposed change of the existing PRC Sponsor to a group of entities incorporated in PRC and Hong Kong.
• An IFI on its first direct loan in an amount of up to USD 100 million, in SAR equivalent, to a leading dairy and juice producer in Saudi Arabia listed on the Saudi stock exchange.
• A consortium of multinational lenders on a project finance matter that entailed the construction and operation of a 108MWp hydropower plant and a substation in Georgia.
• A multinational lender to finance two new 4.5MWp and 11.5MW solar plants in Ukraine.
• A consortium of lenders on a project finance transaction to construct and operate a district cooling and heating plant in Amman, Jordan.
• A multinational lender on a secured loan facility to the Egyptian subsidiary of the biggest yeast manufacturer in the world supported by a guarantee from the Chinese parent company.
• An international lender on a long-term senior loan to an Egyptian subsidiary of the largest ready-mix company in the world.
• An international lender on an acquisition finance transaction to one of the leading consumer product companies listed on Athens Stock Exchange.
• A consortium of multinational and domestic lenders on various transactions with one of the largest power utilities' group in Poland.
• A multinational lender on its first transport project in Mongolia by extending a debt financing to a leading local mining logistics service provider.
• An international lender on a loan facility to a global leader in the assessment and certification of professional skills to finance the expansion of the company’s software and IT platform.
• An IFI on a complex equity swap in one of the largest media and telecommunication corporations in Poland.
• A syndicate of global banks in the first private restructuring in the Ukrainian banking sector.
  
  

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Education
LPC and CPE, University of WestminsterBA, King’s College London, Honors