Shane Wilson joins Squire Patton Boggs

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Shane Wilson as partner in the Public & Infrastructure Finance Practice Group in the Dubai office.

Wilson has more than a decade’s experience advising clients on banking and finance, particularly project finance transactions across the Middle East and Africa. He regularly acts for borrowers and lenders on finance and security matters, including infrastructure financings, property and construction financings, general corporate finance transactions, restructurings, trade financings and other types of secured, non-secured, bilateral and syndicated conventional and Shari’ah-compliant finance transactions. In the area of project finance, Wilson advises lenders, governments, sponsors and project companies on projects in the energy, utilities, infrastructure and metals sectors in various jurisdictions. He also advises Islamic financiers and sponsors on projects financed in compliance with Shari’ah.

Wilson’s recent work highlights include advising the lenders to an international sponsor consortium on the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company procured solar independent power project (IPP) in Abu Dhabi; advising a Japanese sponsor in connection with the Az Zour North 2 Independent Water and Power Project in Kuwait; and advising a GCC-based sponsor in respect of the development of an IPP in Armenia. He also recently advised a UAE government entity on the structuring and financing of a major infrastructure project and the sponsors of various independent water projects in Oman and across the GCC region.