Alex Doughty

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ABOUT ALEX DOUGHTY

Alex is an English law qualified banking and finance transactional lawyer, with 30+ years’ experience practising business law across UK/Europe, CEE/SEE, MENA, Asia and emerging markets generally. Alex has been involved in the drafting and negotiation of a number of high-profile financings, many of which involved a significant regulatory element and dealings with governments and governmental agencies, with many of them being the \"first-in-jurisdiction\".He has advised on 3,400+ transactions involving US$275+ billion of debt financing across 75+ jurisdictions around the globe. These have included corporate facilities, receivables financings, bond issues, private placements, securitisations, structured financings, mortgage backed-bonds, whole business securitisations. Alex’s sector experience includes energy (oil and gas, upstream, mid-stream and downstream and petrochemicals), infrastructure and transport (airports, ports, railway and roads), power (coal and nuclear), public sector (education, healthcare, hospitals and social housing), renewables (co-generation, geothermal, hydro, nuclear, solar, waste-to-energy and wind) and waste and waste water. Alex has an MBA (Finance) from Bayes Business School and, prior to qualifying as a solicitor, worked for a number of years in the City of London (HSBC, Robert Fleming and BAML) as an investment banker. Representative deals include advising:• FundPark on its US$250 million securitisation of receivables originated on its innovative FinTech platform• China Development Bank as lead arranger on various multi-billion credit facilities for part financing the implementation of the GBP21+ billion Hinkley Point C nuclear new-build project in the UK• Dover Harbour Board on the financing of the c.GBP360 million upgrade of the Port of Dover in the UK. This was the first transaction of its type in the UK Trust Port sector• A major international developer as bidder on the acquisition financing of a bid for London City Airport that was sold for c.US$2.3 billion• a UK listed company on its GBP625 million securitisation and RCF facilities• RBS/Lombard on the structuring (using principles), financing and implementation of Gibraltar\'s primary power station, replacing a mix of aged oil burning generators• a multi-lateral development bank on the debt financing of a c.US$250 million new-build marina, office, hotel, apartments and retail development in Aqaba, Jordan• Grupa LOTOS on the debt financing of the c.US$2.9 billion upgrade and expansion of the Gdansk oil refinery