James is a senior associate in our energy, transportation and infrastructure team and a member of our global transactions group. He is based in London.
He has extensive experience in the energy and natural resources, and infrastructure sectors, as well as experience in general finance and restructuring work.
James has worked with public sector and private sector (for both lender and sponsor) clients on a variety of mandates in oil and gas, power (including renewables), road and rail on project financings, M&A and restructurings.
During his time at Freshfields, James has spent time on secondment at ExxonMobil.
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- Advising the lenders on the financing of a greenfield LNG-to-power project in the Republic of Malta.
- Advising Ratio Oil Exploration on its $200m financing of the Leviathan field.
- Advising IGas Energy on its capital restructuring.
- Advising the sponsors (Macquarie, Cintra and PORR) on their bid, award, implementation and project financing of the €1bn Bratislava D4/R7 ring road PPP in Slovakia. Read more about the deal in our case study.
- Advising North Sea Midstream Partners on its purchase and management of UK midstream infrastructure.
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- New York University School of Law, United States (LLM)
- Oxford University, UK (MA in jurisprudence, first class honours)
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