Nabil L. Khodadad

Equinor (formerly Statoil) in connection with the proposed development and financing of the approximately $20 billion Phase 1 of the Shtokman gas, condensate, and LNG project with Gazprom and Total

Azerbaijan (ACG) Ltd, a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), on a $750 million loan facility arranged by BNP Paribas to finance its share of investment in the Azeri, Chirag, and deepwater Gunashli offshore oil and condensate fields; Project Finance magazine’s “European Oil and Gas Deal of the Year” for 2006

Nations Energy on its $1.9 billion sale of its Kazakh fields to the CITIC Group

SOCAR with respect to an oil transit agreement with KMG for the transit of Kzakh oil

SOCAR on its issuance of $500 million 5.45% Notes due 2017. The transaction marked SOCAR’s first Eurobond issuance and the first international Eurobond offering out of Azerbaijan

The EBRD on the $350 million financing of LuKoil’s and the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic’s investments in the Shah Deniz Gas Field and the South Caucasus Gas Pipeline

SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.Ş. and its shareholder SOCAR in connection with a $300 million loan facility to refinance existing financial liabilities

SOCAR on its entry into a $500 million bilateral loan agreement and a $300 million bilateral loan agreement for, among other things, general corporate purposes

SOCAR on separate $480.5 million and $300 million syndicated financings arranged by ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas and Société Générale backed by oil receivables

IFC in connection with its financing for the revamping, modernization, and startup of S.C. Petrotel-Lukoil’s refinery in Romania

A large international mining company in connection with the proposed development and financing of a multibillion dollar integrated iron ore and rail project in west Africa

European Goldfields, a TSX and AIM-listed company, on a proposed $600 million loan facility to be provided by Qatar Holding LLC, the investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and a $150 million loan note facility to finance the development of the Skouries and Olympias gold projects in Greece

The EBRD in connection with an equity investment in GV Gold, a Russian mining company

Newmont Mining Corporation on the IFC-led financing of the Ahafo gold mining project in Ghana, the IFC’s first major mining project after its Extractive Industries Review

The Al Ghurair Group in connection with the sale of a key stake in Al Ghurair Iron & Steel, the first steel cold rolling and galvanizing complex in the UAE, to Nippon Steel Corporation, Japan’s largest steel maker

Billiton on its acquisition, together with Glencore and Anglo American, of Cerrejon Zona Norte, a Colombian company with an interest in the Cerrejon Norte Coal Deposit, for $476 million

Billiton on its acquisition of an equity stake in Carbones del Cerrejon, a Colombian company with rights to the Cerrejon Central and Oreganal Coal Deposits

Zarafshan-Newmont, a joint venture between the State Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources, Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat and Newmont Mining Corporation, on the EBRD-led financing of its project to heap leach gold bearing ore stockpiled near the Muruntau Mine in Uzbekistan and subsequent refinancings of such project; this was a Project Finance International “Deal of the Year”

A government in connection with an investment agreement with a foreign investor for an exploration and mining project with respect to polymetallic ore

A European/Asian joint venture on its proposed development and financing of the approximately $1 billion Namakhvani hydroelectric project in Georgia

A developer in connection with a power project in Yemen

CDC Globeleq on the gas supply arrangements in connection with its acquisition of AES’ interest in the Songo Songo gas to electricity project in Tanzania

IFC in connection with the financing of the Pamir I hydroelectric electric power generation and distribution project in the Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan

WestPac, as sole arranger of project financing for the Carland Cross Wind Farm, the first limited recourse financing of a wind farm in the UK

Barclays Bank, as sole arranger of project financing for the Coal Clough Wind Farm in the UK

A Turkey-based petrochemical company in connection with the construction, financing, and operation of a container port on the Aegean coast of Turkey

The Hayal Saeed Anam Group in connection with a loan from the IFC to finance its food processing operations in Yemen

Capmark Financial on the sale of a portfolio of real estate loans to GE for approximately $1.8 billion

Jazztel plc, a competitive local exchange carrier, on a €200 million syndicated revolving credit and performance bond facility which was arranged by JP Morgan plc to finance the build-out of its network in Spain

Alghanim Industries of Kuwait in connection with a loan facility arranged by HSBC to finance the acquisition of Izocam from the Koc Group

Société Générale as arranger of financing for the acquisition of two Boeing 767s