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Naomi King

Biography

Naomi has experience supporting sponsors, corporates, commercial lenders, ECAs and development financial institutions on a range of financing transactions (including project, corporate and acquisition finance) and investment funds.

Practice areas

  • Project development and finance
  • Funds and asset management

Sectors

  • Energy
  • Financial institutions
  • Infrastructure and transport
  • Mining and metals
  • Private capital

Selected experience

  • A consortium of lenders on the US$7 billion debt financing of the US$12 billion Jazan IGCC project in Saudi Arabia.
  • The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Mizuho Bank as lenders and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) in relation to the development and financing, and its refinancing of the 350 MW solar power project in Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • Numerous Japanese financial institutions’ investment in and/or sponsorship of private equity funds, including LBO, distressed assets and infrastructure funds.
  • JBIC and the commercial lenders on the financing of an FSRU designed to supply LNG to a powership project in Senegal.
  • A Japanese utility on its program to import clean ammonia to Japan for co-firing at its thermal power plants.
  • IFC on the financing of the expansion of the Songo Songo gas field off the coast of Tanzania.
  • A power company and its Sponsors, including two Japanese trading houses and conglomerates and an Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company, on the mezzanine financing for an Indonesian power generation company.
  • Masdar Azerbaijan Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Masdar, in relation to the development and financing of the 230MWAC solar power project in Area 60 in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
  • SMBC in the refinancing of DFC’s loans to PT UPC Sidrap Bayu Energi for the financing of the 75MW Sidrap wind farm in Indonesia.
  • NEXI in relation to the financing from JBIC and other commercial lenders on the approximately $1.13 billion 1,800MW Hamriyah IPP in Sharjah, the UAE.

Education

  • Bachelor of Law (LL.B.), Bond University (2007)
  • Bachelor of Arts (Japanese Studies and International Relations) (B.A.) Bond University (2007)

Admissions

  • Solicitor, England & Wales (2014)

Languages

  • English
  • Japanese