Thomas is an associate in the Energy Transition and Infrastructure Finance practice based in London.
Thomas has experience advising sponsors, lenders and other investors on a broad range of finance transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, with a focus on renewable energy and infrastructure financing projects in various jurisdictions, including domestic and international.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- bp, Equinor and TotalEnergies on the project financings for the Northern Endurance Partnership Project (the NEP Project) and the Net Zero Teesside Project (the NZT Power Project) in the UK
- the lenders to the winning consortium led by Austrian contractor STRABAG and leading global investor, developer and fund manager of core infrastructure assets Equitix for the c.£3 billion financing of the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP) project for United Utilities
- the lenders, comprising Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank Ltd., Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, DBS Bank and BNP Paribas, on a c.US$600 million dual currency (US$/JPY) financing for the financing, development and operation of a Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy (FDRE) project in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, India
- Macquarie, SK and WeBuild as sponsors on the financing of the Rv555 Sotra Connection 25-year PPP road project on Norway’s west coast (European PPP Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2022)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) in relation to their partial credit risk guarantee product to be provided in relation to the 500MW Zarafshan Wind Project in Uzbekistan (Middle East and Africa Central Asia Deal of the Year, PFI Awards 2022)
- the World Bank Group in relation to the Guarantee Package associated with the Bukhara 250MW solar-power plant with a battery energy storage system of 63 MW in Uzbekistan being developed by Masdar
- VTTI, a Dutch energy storage and infrastructure company, on the financing of the acquisition of a majority interest in Terminale GNL Adriatico S.r.l.
- Mercuria Finance Limited on a $250m prepayment to Continental International Resources (H.K) Limited for the development of phase one of the Kisenda mine project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Aggregated Micro Power on the separate project financings of two portfolios of construction and operation phase assets. The portfolios are made up of (i) gas peaking power projects and (ii) biomass heating plants
- Transmission Capital Partners on the financing of its acquisition of the East Anglia One OFTO
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