Nassef Ghazy is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm's Project Development & Finance Practice. Nassef trained in Latham's London and Singapore offices, gaining experience in project development and finance, corporate and acquisition, and leveraged finance transactions.
Profile
Experience
Nassef's recent experience includes advising:
- A national oil company on various intra-group revolving credit facilities and term loan facilities
- The pathfinder ECAs on a US$20 billion Asian fully integrated LNG project which includes significant carbon reduction project
- Euler Hermes and the lenders on the Hermes-covered €135 million financing of an integrated agro-industrial project in Egypt, incorporating reclamation and cultivation of land and construction and operation of the world’s largest sugar beet processing plant. Named Project Finance Deal of the Year by IFLR Middle East Awards 2022 and Best Structured Finance Deal in North Africa by EMEA Finance Achievement Awards 2021
- Export credit agencies and commercial lenders in relation to the US$1.63 billion financing of the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré to be deployed in the Búzios field offshore Brazil
- Saudi Aramco on the development of a 9 million MTCO2 /annum CCS project in Saudi Arabia with Linde, SABIC, and Air Products — the largest project of its kind outside the US
- Export credit agencies and commercial lenders in relation to the financing of the FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão to be deployed in the Mero field offshore Brazil – the transaction was named the Oil & Gas Deal of the Year, FPSO by IJ Global Awards 2023
- The lenders in relation to a reserve-based facility in respect of oil assets in Egypt
- The lenders on the proposed project financing of a working interest in the Monument field, US Gulf of Mexico
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
- England and Wales (Solicitor)
Education
- Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2021
- Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, 2020
- BSc in Political Economy, King's College London, 2019
Languages Spoken
- English
- Arabic