Blaize Vance
Global Guide 2024
Eminent Practitioners : Projects & Energy
Eminent Practitioners
About
Provided by Blaize Vance
Practice Areas
Blaize Vance is the Regional Managing Partner for Africa. Blaize's legal practice focuses on major energy, infrastructure and mining projects, with emphasis on coal, gas and renewable energy projects. Blaize is also involved in business rescue, distressed debt and debt restructuring for banks and financiers throughout Africa.
Blaize has led the firm's legal teams on a number of base-load, renewable and peaking energy projects and has negotiated and prepared finance contracts, projects contracts, power purchase agreements, wheeling agreements, gas supply agreements and implementation agreements. Blaize has also structured the financing of a number of cross-border transactions in Africa and advised on the tax aspects of these transactions.
Chambers Review
Global
Managing partner Blaize Vance is respected for his handling of energy projects relating to renewable energy. He works on behalf of developers in relation to project finance matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Blaize Vance has an impeccable technical knowledge."
"Blaize Vance offers a very reasoned and sensible approach."
"He provides personal service at all times, as well as quick responsiveness. He is very commercial."
"Blaize Vance has an impeccable technical knowledge."
"Blaize Vance offers a very reasoned and sensible approach."
"He provides personal service at all times, as well as quick responsiveness. He is very commercial."