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Tony Nicholson

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Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

Tony is a senior associate based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Banking and Finance practice. He has more than 10 years of global experience representing borrowers, sponsors, commercial lenders, DFIs and ECAs on all aspects of the development and financing of large-scale projects.

His experience spans a range of different sectors including renewables, water and LNG.

He also has extensive experience advising on a broad range of corporate, real estate, asset and acquisition financing transactions, and some experience with cross-border M&A, fund investments, general banking and advisory work, restructuring and insolvency.

Career

• Senior lenders: Advising on the project financing aspects of the Al Wakra & Al Wukair Sewage Treatment Plant in Qatar.*
• Senior lenders: Advising on the project financing aspects of five construction villages in NEOM, Saudi Arabia.*
• Senior lenders: Advising on the project financing aspects of Jubail 3A IWP in Saudi Arabia (Middle East Water Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2020 and MENA Water Deal of the Year, IJ Global 2020).*
• Sponsors: Advising the Kuwaiti and German consortium in connection with the project financing aspects of the Umm Al Hayman wastewater project in Kuwait (Middle East PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2020).*
• ACWA Power: Advising on the project financing aspects of the US$1.2 billion Taweelah IWP in Abu Dhabi, the world’s largest RO desalination plant to date (Middle East Project Finance Deal of the Year, IFLR 2020 and MENA Water Deal of the Year, IJ Global 2019).*

Languages

English, Japanese