Neil Cuthbert
Partner
Neil is a banking and finance partner specialising in project
and infrastructure financings. He has been based in Dubai since
2001. He has extensive experience of advising banks, governments,
borrowers, sponsors and others in project financing transactions
covering a wide range industries, including the oil and gas,
electricity, water, mining, leisure, transportation and
telecommunications industries. He also has a general banking
practice that includes advising banks, borrowers and others on a
wide range of banking products, including, lending, structured
finance, derivatives, trade finance, development finance and
restructurings. He has lectured extensively on a wide range of
banking subjects including at the Euromoney Winter and Summer
Schools of Project Finance. He is the author of the firm's
Standard Introduction to Project Finance and is a past leader of
its International Projects Group.
Neil was head of the Dubai office from 2001 to 2010. He was
Managing Partner of the firm's Middle East offices from 2005 to
2011 and is currently Senior Partner of the firms Middle East
offices. He is also a member of the Policy and Planning Board
of SNR Denton UK LLP and sits on the General Advisory Committee of
SNR Denton UK LLP and SNR Denton USA LLP. He is also a member of
the Group Board of SNR Denton UK LLP and SNR Denton USA LLP.
Neil has been involved in many of the high profile financing
transactions in the Middle East including:
- Advising Emirates Steel Industries on their US$2.5 billion
expansion project in Abu Dhabi (team leader).
- Advising Sumitomo Chemicals on their US$10 billion+ PetroRabigh
Phase I and II Refining and Petrochemicals Project in Saudi Arabia
(team leader).
- Advising Sumitomo Corporation on their involvement in the US$5
billion+ Raz Al Zour IWPP in Saudi Arabia (team leader).
- Advising the Sponsors on the US$1.5 billion Atlantis hotel and
resort project in Dubai (team leader).
- Advising the Creditors Co-ordinating Committee on the
restructuring of the Limitless US$1.2 billion Mudaraba (team
leader).
Since 1995 Neil has been named in various editions of:
- Euromoney’s Guide to World’s Leading Energy and Natural
Resource Lawyers
- Euromoney’s Guides to World’s Leading Project Finance
Lawyers
- Legal Business’ Guides to Experts (Project Finance)
- Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers
- Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Project
Lawyers
- Legal Experts (Bank lending, Project Finance (including
PFI))
- The Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers
- Best Lawyers UAE Project Finance and Development
- Chambers Global 2009: Ranked in Band 1 for Project Finance in
the Middle East
- The International Who's Who of Public Procurement Lawyers 2009
and 2011
- Project Finance Expert Guide 2009
- Legal Experts 2010 - Bank Lending, Projects, energy and natural
resources (incl Project Finance)
- Legal Experts - Europe, Middle East and Africa 2010 (Corporate
& Finance)
- The International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers 2010 and
2011
- The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2011 and
2012
- The International Who's Who of Banking Lawyers 2011
- Legal Experts - Guide to the World's Leading Emerging Market
Practitioners (Project Finance)
- The International Who's Who of Project Finance
Lawyers 2011
- Chambers Global 2011: Ranked in Band 1 for Projects and Energy
(Middle East)
- The International Who's Who of Public Procurement Lawyers
2011
- Legal Experts - Europe, Middle East and Africa 2012 (Corporate
& Finance)
- The International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers
2012
- The International Who's Who of Public Procurement Lawyers
2012
- The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
2013
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