Finance
Our team in the Finance practice group are highly regarded for their excellence, broad experience and versatility. We work on the most difficult, demanding and innovative deals and provide the highest quality legal advice to all types of clients. We act for leading international financial institutions as well as foreign banks and support them in their financing transactions. We also provide advice to corporate borrowers and issuers. We have in depth understanding of many common law concepts used in transactional documentation and develop novel and innovative ways to adapt those concepts locally.
Our financing expertise includes:
- acquisition and leveraged finance including senior and subordinated debt
- derivatives, including interest rate, currency, credit, equity, commodity
- asset finance and leasing for aircraft and capital assets
- syndicated and non-syndicated lending
- loan finance
- non-bank lending, including loans from private or institutional investors
- project finance
- debt and equity capital markets, including issues of equity, bonds and other securities
PROJECT FINANCE
Our project finance team lawyers advise clients on all aspects of project development. We assist our clients with sophisticated financing structures and advise on all aspects of concessions, construction and term financing, including senior, subordinated and mezzanine tranches; export credit agency and international financial institution financings. We work in various industry sectors, including oil and gas, mining, public infrastructure.
We advise on:
- Project finance and infrastructure finance
- Public-private partnerships (PPP)
- Structuring contracts, sub-contracts and security interests
- Debt and equity participation in project finance transactions
- Risk transfer and mitigation strategies
Examples of our work include:
- Advising an international company in procuring and executing financing for the local CDM project under the Kyoto Protocol
ASSET-BASED LENDING
We represent lenders and borrowers in structuring, performing due diligence and negotiating the documentation necessary for both single lender and syndicated asset-based lending transactions. We have experience with cross-border transactions and subordinated lending transactions.
Examples of our work include:
- Representing an international financial institution as a lender in structuring a secured lending transaction (enterprise mortgage) with a local beverages plant; drafting and negotiating transaction documents; executing and perfecting the security interest
ISLAMIC FINANCE
As part of our Islamic Finance practice, we regularly advise financial institutions and private investors on a wide range of Shariah-compliant transactions including, Mudabarah, Bai' al 'inah (sale and buy back), Ijarah, Sukuk and Takaful. Our lawyers have deep understanding of how the concepts used in Islamic finance transactions apply locally and develop innovative ways to ensure that transactions can be completed smoothly.
Examples of our work include:
- Advising an international Islamic development organization on various aspects of implementation of secured lending consistent with the principles of Islamic finance
CAPITAL MARKETS
The lawyers from our Capital Markets practice group have extensive experience advising issuers, international financial institutions, banks, private equity funds, hedge funds, securities intermediaries (including brokers, dealers and depositories) and private investors in various types of debt and equity financings, including public and private offerings, secondary issuances of debt and equity. Our lawyers also advise our clients on various matters, including structured finance, derivatives, cross-border offerings, and compliance with securities regulations.
Examples of our work include:
- Representing local companies in various offerings of debt and equity, registration of the offering prospectus with the local securities authority, compliance with continious disclosure requirements
- Advising foreign banks on enforceability of deriviatvies transactions under ISDA master agreements with loacl counterparties