Vanessa Jane Catherine McLellan

Vanessa's experience includes advising:

• ECP and Centrica on the £1.5 billion acquisition of Grain LNG, the largest LNG import and regasification terminal in Europe
• Saudi Aramco on the construction and CO2 storage arrangements relating to its development of a 9 MTCO2/annum CCS project in Saudi Arabia with Linde and SLB – the largest of its kind outside the US
• An energy company on developing and financing a biofuels project in the Middle East
• The lenders, including Euler Hermes, and SACE, on the refinancing and expansion financing of an ammonia facility in Egypt
• The lenders on the proposed project financing of a gas-fired CCGT power plant in the UK
• Paracel on drafting and negotiating the EPC contracts in connection with its proposed afforestation and pulp mill project in Paraguay
• A global leader in the integrated steel and mining sector on its proposed development of a greenfield steel plant, including on the FEED arrangements, the EPCM, and OEM supply arrangements
• Sponsors on drafting and negotiating the EPC and project management contracts for the development of co-located BESSs adjacent brownfield wind farms
• The Carlyle Group and its Renewable and Sustainable Energy Fund, through its affiliate Acadia Renewable Energy, on acquiring a portfolio of eight solar projects in Maine from BNRG, representing over US$130 million of capital investment, including the related construction and permanent debt financing with HSBC Bank USA, as lead arranger, to develop, construct and operate the portfolio*  
• Uzbekneftegaz JSC and Uzbekistan GTL on the sale to Air Products of a natural gas-to-syngas processing facility within the Uzbekistan GTL gas-to-liquids complex in the Republic of Uzbekistan*
• STAR Rafineri A.Ş., a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), and its sponsors on developing and financing a US$6 billion greenfield oil refinery in Turkey on the Aegean Sea*  
• A joint venture between SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.Ş. and a subsidiary of BP plc on the proposed development and financing of a US$1.8 billion petrochemical industrial complex in Turkey on the Aegean Sea*
• SOCAR Polymer on the approximately US$800 million development and financing of facilities to produce polypropylene and high-density polyethylene in the Republic of Azerbaijan*
• A multinational oil and gas company on its proposed financing arrangements in connection with a potential equity investment in a greenfield LNG liquefaction project*
• Eurochem on constructing and financing an approximately US$1 billion ammonia complex to be located within the existing Phosphorit industrial complex at Kingisepp in the Russian Federation*
• The Goldman Sachs Group on its approximately US$300 million equity investment in McDermott International, a multinational provider of EPCI solutions to the oil and gas industry*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham