Peter Norris
Counsel
Riyadh
peter.norris@lw.com
+966.11.207.2509
PRACTICES
- Banking
- Capital Markets
- Islamic Finance
- Project Development & Finance
- Saudi Arabia Practice
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- Legal Practice Course, College of Law, London,
- LL.B., College of Law, London,
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- French
PROFILE
Peter Norris advises clients on a broad range of complex banking and finance transactions, both in the GCC region and internationally.
Peter draws on more than a decade’s experience in the Middle East and a sophisticated understanding of the local market to guide governments, companies and sponsors, and financial institutions on matters spanning bank finance, Shari’ah-compliant structures, project finance, capital markets, and restructurings.
He has served on the firm’s Recruiting Committee and maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing the Africa Eye Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit corporation, on a performance-based loan for the Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute.
EXPERIENCE
Peter’s representative transactions include advising:
Bank Finance
- Commercial banks and export credit agencies on a covered term loan facility for Saudi Electricity Company
- Dar al-Arkan Real Estate Development Company on multiple ijara facilities
- Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) on several export credit agency and commercial bank financing arrangements
- Lead arrangers and agents on various financing matters for Al-Etisalat Al-Mutanakilah Al-Saudia Company (Zain KSA)
- The National Industrialization Company (TASNEE) on its holdco murabaha financing facilities and subsequent sukuk refinancing
- Commercial banks on several refinancing matters for Kuwait Food Company (Americana) K.S.C.P
- Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (MARAFIQ) on a murabaha financing facility
- The lead arranger and agents on certain refinancing matters for Emaar Libadiye Gayrimenkul Geliştirme A.Ş. and Emaar Properties PJSC
- Commercial banks on a murabaha financing facility for Almarai Company
- Advanced Metals Industries Cluster on a murabaha financing facility
- Commercial banks on financing the Meydan Beach Hotel
- Commercial banks on a murabaha financing facility for Thakher Development Company
- Commercial banks on a murabaha financing facility for Al-Sharah Al-Arabia Real Estate Company
- Global Data Hub Company on a murabaha financing facility
- Lead arrangers and agents on various financing matters for International Methanol Company
- Microsol International on a term loan facility
Project Finance
- PT Pertamina EP Cepu (PEPC), a subsidiary of the Indonesian state-owned energy producer PT Pertamina, on a wakala tranche to finance the Jambaran-Tiung Biru field in East Java, marking the first Islamic financing in the context of an Indonesian trustee borrowing structure
- ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Jubail Company and Al-Tanmiah (AMTPJ) for Industrial & Commercial Investment Company on the financing of the world’s largest seamless steel tube plant (and subsequent refinancing exercises)
- Export credit agencies, commercial banks, and underwriters on financing the PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea
- Lead arrangers and agents on the financing of four ultra-deep-water drill ships for Pacific Drilling
- Lead arrangers and agents on multiple financing matters for the Jubail Acetyls Complex
- Mandated lead arrangers on the project financing of a polysilicon plant
Capital Markets
- Banque Saudi Fransi on its mudaraba / murabaha Tier II Sukuk
- Dar al-Arkan Real Estate Development Company on several sukuk matters
- Joint lead managers and bookrunners on the mudaraba Sukuk and the mudaraba / Murabaha Sukuk of Saudi International Petrochemical Company (now Sahara International Petrochemical Company)
- Lead managers and agent on the musharaka sukuk of Rawabi Vallianz Offshore Company
- The National Industrialization Company (TASNEE) on its sukuk issuance
Other Transactions
- Public-private-partnership unit of a Middle East sovereign on certain rail projects
- The National Titanium Dioxide Company (Cristal) on its murabaha and bai al-ajal financing facilities; named “Restructuring Deal of the Year” by Islamic Finance News
- Jabal Omar Development Company on various financing and refinancing matters