The Trinity finance team comprises senior lawyers from large international law firms and is recognised for its financing work in emerging markets (including corporate, leverage, project and mining finance) alongside some of the largest and best firms in the market.
Trinity has experience in the complete spectrum of financing arrangements (including corporate, financial institutions, leverage, project and mining finance) for a wide range of clients from commercial banks to development finance institutions and export credit agencies as well as having advised sponsors and developers on finance documents.
Although we currently act on transactions with an aggregate capital value of over US$6 billion, our flexibility as a team allows us to act on a spectrum of transaction ranging from a few million dollars to billions. The average size of the transactions we act on is around US$250 million.
The team comprises senior lawyers from large international law firms specialising on sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging markets. Trinity is recognised by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 and has advised on various award-winning transactions. The 2011 edition of Chambers Global ranks Trinity International for “Projects & Energy: Africa” alongside some of the largest and best firms in the market.
Examples of recent transactions led by members of our team include:
- Turkana Wind IPP (Kenya): Acting for African Development Bank in respect of the financing of the Turkana 300 MW wind farm project in Kenya.
- Acquisition and Project Financing (Nigeria): advising a leading commercial bank on the acquisition and project financing of a large petrochemicals complex in Nigeria.
- Telecoms Financing (Zambia): Representing commercial lenders in respect of the refinancing of a mobile telecommunications company in Zambia.
- Olkaria III Geothermal IPP (Kenya): Advising FMO, DEG, KfW, EAIF and Proparco in the US$105m financing of the Olkaria III geothermal IPP in Kenya.
- Gold mine financing (Malaysia): Advising Nedbank in relation to the financing of a gold mine in Malaysia.
- US$150m Power Plant (Mauritius): Acting for Lenders in relation to the development of a waste-to-energy plant in Mauritius.
- Tema Port (Ghana): Representing Standard Bank of South Africa and Stanbic Ghana in relation to the financing of a container terminal at Tema Port, Ghana.
- Copper mine financing: Acting for Mopani Copper Mines in relation to the financing of the expansion and development of mining operations.
- Gold mine financing (Uzbekistan): Acting for Standard Bank, WestLB and SocGen on the financing of a gold mine project in Uzbekistan) (Named Mining deal of the Year for Europe in 2003 by Project Finance Magazine).
- US$1.2billion pipeline project (Mozambique/South Africa):Advising the lead arrangers, Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank (SCMB) and DBSA, and the lending consortium (FMO, DEG, ADB, Proparco, EIB) in relation to the financing of a US$1.2 billion natural gas pipeline project from Mozambique to South Africa(Sasol Pipeline Project), one of the largest financings ever carried out in Africa.
- US$2.5billion IWPP financing (Saudi Arabia): Representing an international syndicate of lenders (including multilateral lenders, commercial lenders and an Islamic finance tranche) in connection with the US$2.5bn financing of the first IWPP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- US$65,000,000 cross-border financing (Tanzania): Representing an international syndicate of lenders (including Standard Bank, FMO and DEG) in connection with a $65,000,000 cross-border financing for Vodacom, a mobile telephone operator in Tanzania. Project Finance Magazine selected this transaction for the “African Telecoms Deal of Year 2002″ award.
Contacts:
Simon Norris: simon.norris@trinityllp.com
Kaushik Ray: kaushik.ray@trinityllp.com