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Alexander Currie Baker Botts Riyadh
Alexander Currie Baker Botts Riyadh
Alexander Currie
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Practices
Global Projects
Project Development
Project Finance
Industries
Energy
Mining and Metals
Oil and Gas
Power

Overview

Alexander Currie has 30 years' experience acting on the development of projects, project financing, acquisitions and disposals of energy and natural resource assets, and restructuring troubled projects.

Alexander's sector experience includes a wide range of oil and gas, mining, and power assets.

Alexander relocated from London to Riyadh in 2023.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • Saudi Bar Association, 2024
  • Qualified Solicitor, England & Wales, 2001

Education

  • Bachelor of Economics, University of Sydney 1992
  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney 1994
    Honours

Experience

  • Air Products Qudra (APQ) in relation to the sale of a 50% interest in Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases Company to Saudi Aramco and hydrogen and nitrogen offtake contracts
  • The shareholders on the restructuring of a $1 billion Saudi Arabian industrial project
  • Marubeni, JGC and Al-Jomaih on a joint venture with Saudi Aramco to develop three co-generation projects at Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and Hawiyah, financed by U.S. Exim, commercial banks and Islamic banks (winner IJ Global Middle East Power Deal of the Year)
  • Nord Stream 2 A.G. on the €9.9 billion Nord Stream 2 sub-sea pipeline project through Russia, Finnish, Swedish, Danish and German territories
  • CNPC and CNOOC on the €11billion project financing of the €22 billion Arctic 2 LNG project with financing from CDB, CExim, VEB, Exiar, JBIC, Nexi, Euler Hermes, SACE
  • South Stream Transport BV on the project financing of the €8 billion TurkStream project, with financing from Euler Hermes, SACE, Credendo, VEB and Exiar
  • Shtokman Development AG (a project company owned by Gazprom, Total and Statoil) on the $26 billion project financing of the Shtokman gas, LNG and condensate project
  • Amursky Gas Processing Plant, acting for the project company on the €13 billion gas, LPG and helium processing project
  • Sakhalin Energy Investment Company in respect of its US$20 billion gas and LNG project on Sakhalin Island, Russia.
  • Epic Energy (Australia) Limited on its $2.4 billion acquisition of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.
  • BP on the US$1.6 billion sale of its interests in Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil field and the CPC Pipeline to Lukoil
  • Gazprom Neft on its £7.9 billion acquisition of a majority control in Sibir Energy Plc, the UK-listed oil company operating in Russia
  • EdF on its acquisitions of the Cottam power station from PowerGen and West Burton power station from TXU Europe for a combined £1.2 billion
  • A Japanese company on the US$9 billion Ambatovy nickel and cobalt mining project in Madagascar
  • The largest creditor on the $16 billion restructuring of Dubai Group
  • QIA and UBS on their £8 billion bid for Thames Water
  • Tamboran Resources on its 6.6 mpta Maverick LNG Project in the Beetaloo Basin, the largest undeveloped gas reserve in the world, particularly on the LNG sales strategy
  • First Ammonia on its programme to build 5,000MW of green hydrogen and ammonia plants around the world, including procurement of high efficiency electrolysers
  • Gazprom, and E.ON on the €2 billion Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field in Western Siberia (winner European Gas Deal of the Year and European Oil & Gas Upstream Deal of the Year)
  • The lenders the project financing of a base metals mine in Yemen, the first project financing in Yemen
  • JBIC, NEXI, Euler Hermes, SACE, SERV, VEB and Exiar as lead lenders on the project financing of the € 13 billion offshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Bulgaria through the Black Sea
  • Sinopec on its investment € 1.3 billion with Rosneft in the Sakhalin III oil and gas field