Ruairi McGill
20 Fenchurch Street
24th Floor
London EC3M 3BY
United Kingdom
Ruairi is an associate in the London Energy Transactions & Projects practice. He has advisory and transactional experience in project development and finance, cross border M&A, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and general corporate work, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He previously worked for an upstream onshore drilling contractor with operations across the Middle East.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Ruairi has assisted.
Experience Highlights
Advise a project developer on the application of U.S. coastwise laws to proposed construction and installation activities for a U.S. offshore wind project
SOCAR and its subsidiary SOCAR Turkey in connection with a $1.3 billion equivalent syndicated loan facility to refinance existing financial liabilities. At the time of signing the transaction represented the largest syndicated loan arrangement completed in 2021 by a non-financial company in Turkey
Funds managed by Apollo in the $2 billion sale by New Fortress Energy Inc. of 11 LNG infrastructure vessels to a newly formed venture owned approximately 80% by Apollo funds and 20% by NFE
A subsidiary of a Middle Eastern national oil company on a series of transactions to acquire jack-up drilling units from multiple sellers
STAR Rafineri A.Ş. a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and its sponsors in relation to its $6.3 billion oil refinery in Turkey on the Aegean Sea
DigitalBridge in its lead investment of £295 million in Netomnia, a provider of full fibre broadband infrastructure, and internet service provider YouFibre
Quantum Energy Partners in its acquisition of an interest in Trident Energy, an international upstream operator with assets in Equatorial Guinea and Brazil, from affiliates of Warburg Pincus, and commitment of additional funding to Trident of up to $400 million
Uzbekistan GTL and Uzbekneftegas on the sale to Air Products of a natural gas-to-syngas processing facility in the Kashkadarya Region, Uzbekistan for US$1 billion. This sale is the largest M&A transaction in Uzbekistan’s history
Credentials
- University of Law, LPC, Distinction, 2021
- University of Law, GDL, Distinction, 2020
- University of Bristol, B.Sc. in Economics and Politics, First Class, 2018
- England and Wales