Clifford Chance LLP

Construction, Banking & finance, Energy & resources, Banks, Transport & logistics

Christopher McIsaac is joint head of the Americas Energy and Projects Group, which is focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects.

Christopher has a broad-based finance experience including lender and sponsor representation across a range of industry sectors, particularly oil and gas, power generation and other energy projects. He is Counsel to commercial lenders, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, and project sponsors.

Christopher has structured, drafted and negotiated credit facilities involving recourse, non-recourse, mezzanine, capital lease, and offshore trust structures, among others. He has also structured and documented a variety of equity arrangements on behalf of sponsors and developers including: the negotiation of project contracts with concession grantors, power purchasers and other offtakers, EPC contractors, equipment suppliers, and fuel suppliers; negotiated and documented financing arrangements in the public and private markets involving commercial banks, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, institutional lenders, and underwriters.

Christopher spent nearly five years in Asia, where he was the attorney in charge of the Singapore office of a major New York law firm.