Why Bracewell?
Bracewell is a leading law firm serving the energy, financial services, technology, infrastructure and public finance industries throughout the world. The Firm and our lawyers have consistently been recognised as leaders in the field of energy and infrastructure projects. Bracewell’ s finance group is known for advising borrowers and lenders on billions of dollars of financial transactions every year and its commitment to providing an outstanding level of service at all times.
Our finance team has extensive experience of advising on export credit agency( ECA) supported financings in many jurisdictions around the world and has advised borrowers and lenders on financings involving all of the major ECAs that are active in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Our experienced team is well versed in the nuances of structuring and documenting ECA financings( whether for project financings or corporate financings) and we understand what it takes to reach a successful close on an ECA financing. Our in-depth knowledge of the energy and infrastructure market, places us in a unique position to advise lenders and sponsors on their ECA financing arrangements.
Our team member’ s ECA finance credentials include:
• Advising Atradius, SACE, UKEF and other financial institutions on the US $ 6.5 billion project financing for the construction of the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex in Oman.
• Advising the commercial lender on the ECA financing of equipment for the football African Cup of Nations 2024 supported by Bpifrance.
• Advising the commercial lender on the ECA financing of the export of Fonroche Lightnening street light equipment for the benefit of the Ministry of Finance of Senegal for a value of EUR87.6m supported by Bpifrance.
• Advising Société Générale in relation to the ECA financing for the construction of hospitals in West Africa supported by Bpifrance.
• Advising the commercial lender on the ECA financing for the construction of bridges in West Africa supported by Bpifrance.
• Advising satellite operator O3b Networks Limited in connection with its US $ 1.7 billion project financing which included a COFACE( now Bpifrance) covered facility
• Advising Seabras Bermuda Limited in connection with the US $ 500 million financing( which included a Bpifrance covered facility) of a subsea fibre optic cable system between Sao Paolo and New York
• Advising K-Exim, K-sure, COFACE( now Bpifrance), US Exim, UKEF, Euler Hermes and other financial institutions in connection with the US $ 12.5 billion financing for the Sadara Integrated Petrochemicals Project in Saudi Arabia.
• Advising Bpifrance and other financial institutions on multiple award winning expansion financings of Reliance Industries Limited’ s Jamnagar Petrochemicals Project in India.
• Advising AES in connection with the 500 MW Maritza Iztok-1 project-financed lignite power plant in Bulgaria, which includes Euler Hermes, COFACE, EBRD and BPIFrance( formerly Coface) as lenders bracewell. com