Practice Areas
Adrian leads the Herbert Smith Freehills banking and finance practice in South East Asia. He specialises in acting for banks and borrowers on project and energy finance transactions and has particular expertise in reserve based lending and other financings in the natural resources sector. Most of the transactions he has worked on involve complex cross-border security issues. His clients include BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Work Highlights
• Standard Chartered Bank and IFC on their provision of a US$750 million syndicated facility to Cairn Energy Hydrocarbons Limited for the development of its oil and gas assets in Rajasthan (and associated pipeline)
• BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered Bank and IFC (as co-ordinating banks) in relation to a syndicated US$250 million senior secured borrowing base facility and a US$75 million junior secured borrowing base facility to Salamander Energy to develop its oil and gas assets in Thailand and Indonesia
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank and CIMB on a US$160 million pre-development financing of BC Petroleum's interests in a Malaysian small field risk services contract
• BNP Paribas, Bank of Scotland, Crédit Agricole, Standard Chartered Bank and other commercial banks on Tullow Oil's plc, US$3 billion syndicated secured multi-tiered reserves based and corporate facilities
• BNP Paribas, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Hang Seng Bank as arrangers under a US$100 million project finance facility to fund the development of the Martabe gold mine located in Indonesia
