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Neil Cuthbert

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Work Department

Banking and Finance, Project Finance, Financial Institutions Government and Public Services Oil and Gas Power and Utilities Project Development, Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Transportation, Freight and Logistics Wastewater Treatment, Water Management, Desalination

Position

Neil is a Senior Legal Advisor specialising in project and infrastructure financings in Dentons’ Dubai office. He has been based in Dubai since 2001. He has over 40 years’ experience advising banks, governments, borrowers, sponsors and others in project financing transactions covering a wide of range industries, including oil and gas, electricity, water, mining, leisure, transportation and telecommunications. He also has a general banking practice that includes advising banks, borrowers and others on a wide range of banking products, including, lending, structured finance, derivatives, trade finance, development finance and restructurings.

He has lectured extensively on a wide range of banking subjects including at the Euromoney Winter and Summer Schools of Project Finance. He is the author of the firm’s Standard Introduction to Project Finance and is a past leader of its International Projects Group.

Neil was head of the Dubai office from 2001 to 2010. He was Managing Partner of the firm’s Middle East offices from 2005 to 2011 and was the Senior Partner of the firm’s Middle East offices. He was also a member of the Policy and Planning Board of Dentons UKMEA LLP and sat on the General Advisory Committee of Dentons. He was a member of the Global Board of Dentons from 2011 to 2015.

Languages

English

Memberships

Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales, 1979

Education

University of Exeter, 1975, LLB, (Hons)