Expertise
William advises clients including sponsors and developers, commercial lenders, development financing institutions and state-owned enterprises on a wide variety of corporate, commercial and finance matters, with a particular focus on project finance matters in the energy sector. His experience spans nuclear power, hydropower, solar, wind, oil & gas as well as various social and economic infrastructure asset classes.
William has also undertaken a client secondment to a leading European bank in London.
- Experience
Recent experience includes advising:
- the UK's National Wealth Fund, as principal lender, on its c.£36 billion financing of the 3,200 MW Sizewell C nuclear power project in the UK, the first new-build nuclear power project to be financed by way of a RAB model
- ARPE Limited, as project company, in relation to the refinancing of the Achwa 1 and Achwa 2 hydropower projects in Uganda, including due diligence on project documentation and negotiation of project finance documentation with DFIs;
- the Nigerian National Petroleum Company in relation to the financing and joint development of several upstream oil licence areas in Nigeria;
- on the financial restructuring and ongoing asset management of the 400MW Adjaristsqali Cascade hydropower project in the Republic of Georgia;
- The project company (as borrower), whose shareholders include Credicorp Group, Norfund and Agua Imara, on its prepayment and exit from its project finance arrangement with the existing lenders (FMO of the Netherlands, DNB of Norway, Proparco of France and DEG of Germany) in relation to the 58 MW Bajo Frio hydropower project in Panama;
- the lenders on the refinancing of a number of PFI projects, including a street lighting project in South-East England and a health project in Fife, Scotland;
- Gravis Capital on the acquisition financing of several portfolio of anaerobic digestion plants; and
- global port operator on the project financing of a port and logistics project in Chennai, India.
- Professional Memberships
- The Law Society of England and Wales