Neil Brimson has worked for the firm for over 30 years in London, New York, Paris and, since early 2007, Dubai. He is admitted as both an English Solicitor and Avocat at the Paris Bar. Neil was managing partner of the Paris office from 1994 to 2002 and subsequently led our Paris projects group. He now heads up our Middle East practice.
Throughout his career, Neil has been a projects lawyer in the widest sense, handling a broad range of corporate, contractual and finance transactions, mainly in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His practice has focused primarily on major energy, natural resource and infrastructure transactions.
Neil was President of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce & Industry between 2002 and 2004.
Credentials
- Middle East corporations on major infrastructure projects
- Electricité de France (EDF) in relation to the EDF Trading joint venture with Louis Dreyfus, including the €150 million acquisition by EDF of Louis Dreyfus' stake in EDF Trading Limited
- Eurotunnel on successive phases of its debt and equity funding arrangements since the outset of the Channel Tunnel Project, including the 1996/98 restructuring of Eurotunnel's £9 billion debt and a number of subsequent complex operations to reduce its debt
- Energy Africa on a major joint venture in Gabon and on a series of financings of its upstream investments in the Gulf of Guinea, including the US$100 million debt and equity development financing of its interest in the Nkossa Field, offshore Congo
- Chevron Texaco on the €270 million financing of Phase I of the IGCC Normandie cogeneration project in France
- ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in relation to its acquisition of upstream petroleum interests, offshore Nigeria
- a series of major development financings for both sponsors and lenders of offshore oil and gas projects in the North Sea and Africa
Accolades
"Neil Brimson ... is expert in infrastructure and energy matters and is a stalwart of the scene in Africa".
Chambers Global 2007