Selected experience*

• Advising the borrower in connection with a methanol plant construction project in Volgograd in partnership with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (including advice on Russian law governed EPC contracts, supply of process equipment and contracts required for the use of the project infrastructure). The project includes the syndicated financing by shareholders and lenders in the aggregate amount of more than $800 million

• Advising a major Russian bank in relation to an 88 billion rubles (US$1,150 million) financing to a Russian company engaged in development of ore deposits in the Taimyr region

• Advising a syndicate of lenders in relation to a US$2+ billion project financing to a Russian company for the purpose of the first-phase construction of a mining and processing plant with an annual processing capacity of 7 million tons of ore at the Chernogorskoye platinum, copper and nickel ore deposit in the Krasnoyarsk Region, including due diligence of real estate, review of initial permits for the construction and operation of the project, and review of equipment delivery contracts governed by Russian law

• Advising the borrower in relation to a 54 billion ruble project financing provided to Tominskiy Processing Plant

• Advising a syndicate of Gazprombank, VTB and Eurasian Development Bank in relation to the project financing of the Western High Speed Diameter toll road in St Petersburg

• Advising Tav Havalimanlari Holding AS (TAV Airports), Istanbul-based airport construction and operations company, on the project financing for the development of key infrastructure at Almaty International Airport. The financing was provided by EBRD, IFC, EDB and DEG and totalled US$450 million

 *This includes experience of our team members prior to joining RGD.