People
Mike Campbell
Biography
Mike is a senior projects, energy and infrastructure lawyer in Dubai and has been based in the Middle East since he relocated from the firm's London office in 2017.
He has wide-ranging experience of project and infrastructure financings and refinancings in EMEA and has advised sponsors, lenders and procurers across a wide range of assets in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors. He has particular expertise in project development and finance of large-scale energy projects in the GCC.
Mike also has valuable experience of developing legaltech solutions to client problems and led a team which developed an AI-assisted Covid-19 contract review platform which was ‘highly commended’ in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report.
Mike has spent time on secondment to 3i’s infrastructure investment team where he worked on a range of transactions including acquisitions, disposals, refinancings and fundraisings. He also has experience of acting in the CIS region, having previously spent time in the firm's Moscow office.
Practice areas
- Finance
- Project development and finance
- Administrative and public law
- Disputes
Sectors
- Energy
- Power
- Infrastructure and transport
Selected experience
- An international energy company on the USD11 billion development and financing of a petrochemical expansion project in Saudi Arabia.
- A national oil company on the raising of several billion dollars of ECA covered, commercial and Islamic finance in connection with the development of an expansion petrochemical project in the UAE.
- Various national oil companies in the GCC on the development and financing of around 9GW of renewable energy in a series of greenfield transactions.
- Duqm Refineries & Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC) a joint venture company established by Oman Oil Company and Kuwait Petroleum International, in relation to its USD9bn refinery project in Oman.
- A utilities developer on a project bond refinancing of an existing GCC utility asset.
Education
- LLB, University of Law, 2013
- Legal Practice Course, University of Law, 2013
- Graduate Diploma in Law, College of Law, 2012
- MA, History, University of Oxford, 2010
Admissions
- Solicitor, England and Wales, 2015