People
Joe Clinton
Biography
Joe advises sponsors, borrowers, lenders, export credit agencies and multilaterals on project development and financing, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.
He previously worked in the firm’s Istanbul, Moscow and London offices. Joe also has extensive experience advising lenders and borrowers on a range of restructuring, Islamic, leveraged, structured, real estate and general corporate financing transactions.
Practice areas
- Finance
- Project development and finance
- Restructuring insolvency and capital solutions
Selected experience
- An international energy company on the development of a green hydrogen project in South Africa.
- An international energy company on the development of a portfolio of sustainable aviation fuel projects in Europe.
- Masdar, EDF and Nesma on the project financing of the 300MW Jeddah PV project in Saudi Arabia’s part of REPDO's second procurement round.
- A public petroleum and natural gas company in relation to their investment in the Rabigh 2 and Shuaibah 2 solar PV IPPs.
- The export credit agencies (including K-Exim, K-SURE and SACE) on the development and financing of USD6bn integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.
- A sponsor on the development and financing of a world scale cracker and petrochemical complex located in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
- The sponsor on the Shuweihat 4 RO IWP project in Abu Dhabi.
- The lenders on the first limited recourse financing in KSA for the project financing for Quantum Switch Tamasuk’s development of a hyperscale-grade data centre.
Education
- BA, Law, Queens' College, Cambridge University, 2001
- LPC, Nottingham Law School, 2002
Admissions
- Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2005
Languages
- English