The team at Milbank regularly advises well-known domestic financial institutions, international development finance institutions, and export credit agencies, as well as banks and multinational companies in Asia, the US, and Europe. Aled Davies heads up the team and is particularly well known for infrastructure and natural resources mandates, with expertise in complex asset and project finance transactions. The practice also assists with ECA-backed financings, as well as restructurings and acquisition finance issues. Associate Lewis Blundell is complimented as ‘a great negotiator’, while Andrew Pendleton is described by clients as a ‘talented lawyer’.
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Testimonials
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'Exceptionally high expertise and quality of advice by individual lawyers.'
‘Lewis Blundell is a great negotiator who has organised and harmonised our discussions while clearly advocating our position to others with different cultures and ways of thinking during negotiations.'
‘Andrew Pendleton is a talented lawyer.’
Key clients
- Japan Bank for International Cooperation
- The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
- Nippon Export and Investment Insurance
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
- BNPP
- ING
- Société Générale
- AfDB
- BPI France
- EDC
- EIB
- Export-Import Bank of China
- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
- Korea Eximbank
- Yinson Boronia Production B.V.
- Crédit Agricole CIB
- Sumitomo Corporation
Work highlights
- Advised a lender group of export credit agencies and international financial institutions on financing the development of a high voltage direct current subsea transmission system in the United Arab Emirates issued by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC.
- Advised the lenders and agents in connection with the post-restructuring phase of the project financing for the $8.8bn Ambatovy nickel and cobalt mine in Madagascar.
- Advised JBIC, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance and commercial lenders on the project financing of the Libra MV31 floating, production, storage and offloading vessel which will be deployed in the Mero Field in Brazil by a consortium led by Petrobas.
Lawyers
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Aled Davies