Andrew Hart joined the London office of Fulbright & Jaworski International LLP. as a partner in November 2007.  He was previously a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from 1999 to October 2007, working in its London and Hong Kong offices.

Andrew specialises in project and infrastructure work, particularly in the energy and transportation sectors.  He has a wide ranging practice which includes greenfield project development and financing (leading both the corporate and finance aspects of these transactions), M&A in relation to project assets and LNG project development across a variety of European, Middle East and Asian markets.

Andrew has particular experience of advising export credit agencies and multilaterals on major international projects, as well as energy and power companies and (more recently) infrastructure funds on secondary market M&A deals involving infrastructure assets.

Greenfield project development and financing:
Advising:

• Five export credit agencies as common ECA counsel on the financing of a multi-billion dollar petrochemical project in China. This deal marked the first time that four of those ECAs had taken both commercial and political risk on a project financing in China.
• A multilateral institution and an export credit agency as common lenders’ counsel in relation to the financing of a cold rolled stainless steel project in Shanghai.
• A multilateral institution on the financing for an acquisition of a Chinese power company, a number of debt restructurings in China and the acquisition of an interest in a Hong Kong listed company.
• Three multilateral institutions, two export credit agencies and seven commercial banks on the financing of a toll road project in the Philippines.
• An export credit agency on the financing of a multi-million dollar power project in China.
• International counsel to the sponsors of a road project in Korea.
• The Government of Pakistan in connection with a private sector electricity transmission line project in Pakistan.

LNG and fuel supply:
Advising:

• A major Asian national oil company on the development of an upstream LNG project in the Middle East.
• A major international oil company on its negotiations of LNG supply arrangements with a potential purchaser of its share of the supply from an LNG project in Western Australia.
• DBE Consortium on their successful bid for, and subsequent development of, a combined LNG receiving terminal and power plant project in India, including the drafting and negotiation of LNG supply arrangements with an LNG company in Qatar.
• A consortium of national and international oil companies on the arrangements for the storage and supply of fuel to Hong Kong International Airport.
• A French consortium on their bid for the foreign investor stake in an LNG receiving terminal project in China.

M&A in relation to project assets/infrastructure funds:
Advising:

• An infrastructure fund (with offices in the US and the UAE, and with investors from the GCC countries) on its acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in an Asian power company, which has ownership interests in 14 power projects in the PRC, South Korea and Taiwan. Since that initial transaction, Andrew has advised the fund on a whole series of transactions, including a bid for a US energy company’s Asian power assets, two separate Islamic compliant (Murabaha) debt financings, a debt restructuring, an IPO in Singapore, a gas project in Tunisia and the beginnings of a petrochemical project in China.
• An emerging markets investment fund on its refinancing of the existing debt of a central Asian energy company, which has an interest in an oil and gas field in Azerbaijan.
• A US utility on a due diligence review of a power project portfolio in China as part of a possible merger transaction.
• An Asian utility on its bid for the Asian assets of a US energy company (comprising of projects located in China, Korea, Thailand, Pakistan and Australia) and on a number of its other acquisition opportunities in India.

Andrew has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on international law, project-development and finance and infrastructure topics.

1988 - Diploma in Legal Practice, Edinburgh University
1987 - LLB (hons), Edinburgh University (First Class)

Andrew was admitted as a Solicitor in Scotland in 1990, England and Wales in 1992 and Hong Kong in 1997.