Tim Pipe

Profil complet

Tim is an energy finance partner in the Energy, Marine and Natural Resources department at Clyde & Co in London. Tim joined the firm in 2022, and advises lenders, borrowers, private equity houses, multilateral financial institutions and commodity traders in relation to financings in the natural resources sector, with a particular focus on the upstream oil and gas sector and in emerging markets (particularly sub-Saharan Africa and the CIS). Tim has worked on a wide range of financing structures, including reserve-based lending (RBL) facilities, acquisition financings, prepayments, senior/junior financings, pre-export finance (PXF) and traditional corporate lending transactions.

Expérience

• Advising a leading commodity trading house in relation to quasi-financing for a Zambian pipeline operator
• Advising a leading commodity house in relation to the restructuring of USD and EUR loans provided to a West African national refining company
• Advising Standard Chartered Bank as arranger in relation to a $1.3bn syndicated loan facility for Sonangol (Angola)
• Advising a multilateral financial institution as syndicate lead to a defaulting Nigerian upstream producer on the restructuring of $500m+ of outstanding loans.
• Advising a leading commodity trading house as arranger of a structured secured syndicate loan facility for a large Nigerian upstream producer
• Advising a leading commodity trading house as arranger of a reserve-based lending facility to a Norwegian upstream producer acquiring assets in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea
• Advising a leading commodity trading house as provider of structured prepayment facilities to a leading LNG producer in Equatorial Guinea