Isabel Lowson

Isabel’s experience includes advising:

• The sponsors, led by Total, in connection with the US$20 billion financing by several ECAs of the development of an LNG Project in Mozambique
• The commercial banks, Islamic financiers, and hedging banks on the US$1.2 billion refinancing of the Al Dur Independent Water and Power Project (Al Dur IWPP) in Bahrain – the transaction was named MENA Refinancing of the Year by IJ Global Awards 2024
• Pearl Petroleum Company Limited in matters relating to its US$250 million financing provided by a development bank
• Saudi Aramco on the development and project financing of a landmark carbon capture and sequestration project in the Middle East
• The ECAs and lenders on the refinancing and expansion financing of the Egypt Hydrocarbon Company’s (EHC) 1,320 mtpd ammonia facility in Ain Sokhna, Egypt
• The commercial lenders and ECA in relation to a US$1 billion ECA-covered facility for an NOC
• A national oil company on various intra-group revolving credit facilities and term loan facilities
• Nakilat Inc. on various refinancings and other matters relating to its US$5 billion debt program
• Nakilat Inc. on the refinancing of Nakilat Maritime Corporation’s existing US$340 million facility
• SACE S.p.A and HSBC as participant and agent on a new Push Program with a substantive facility aimed at supporting the Italian value chain in the food and beverage sector
• The commercial lenders, Islamic financiers, and ECAs on ongoing matters related to the ECA-covered and uncovered conventional and Islamic facilities for the Duqm refinery project
• Jabal Omar Development Company in relation to its SAR6 billion refinancing
• Commercial banks on a murabaha financing facility for Thakher Development Company
• A GCC drilling company on the Shari’ah-compliant financing of its newbuild jack-up rigs
• Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) in relation to its US$1.2 billion conventional and Islamic facilities and its ECA-covered facilities
• ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Al-Jubail on its conventional and Islamic facilities, the 100% acquisition of a seamless pipe manufacturer, and the related debt-to-equity conversions of its shareholder loans
• Al Yamama Company for Trading & Contract on its bid for Saudi Aramco’s Haradh and Wudayhi Serviced Residential Compounds and Industrial Facilities Project
• A mixed-use development joint venture on the loan facility to finance its DIFC-based property
• The borrower in connection with the financing of its acquisition of a majority stake in a payments business
• The agents and account banks in relation to the US$585 million debt financing of a first-of-its-kind PPP road concession in Central Asia*
• Governments, including sovereign wealth funds, on various financing and refinancing matters

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham