Richard Chul Kim

Richard’s experience includes advising:

• The export credit agencies and lenders on the project financing of the proposed Papua LNG Project in Papua New Guinea
• The export credit agencies and commercial bank lenders on the proposed financing of SK E&S’s 37.5% share of the Barossa LNG gas field
• Z Holdings, the holding company of Yahoo Japan, in its US$30 billion business integration with LINE – the largest Japan tech deal announced in 2019, and winner of the ALB Japan Law Awards’ M&A Deal of the Year and TMT Deal of the Year, and ALB Korea Law Awards’ M&A Deal of the Year
• The export credit agencies and commercial bank lenders in the US$1.6 billion project financing for Northvolt’s development of two gigafactories for lithium ion battery cell production in Europe
• Air Products, as project owner, on the development of a US$2 billion coal-to-methanol production facility in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, the first project of this kind in the region
• The export credit agencies and commercial banks in the US$1.5 billion original financing and the US$1.1 billion refinancing of the 1,240-MW Mong Duong 2 thermal power project in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam
• The export credit agencies and commercial banks in the US$2.55 billion partial refinancing of the Australia Pacific LNG liquefaction facility in Queensland, Australia
• Clifford Capital Pte. Ltd, as sponsor, manager, and subordinated note investor, in the first infrastructure project finance securitization in Asia
• The export credit agencies and commercial bank lenders in the US$701 million project financing of the 98.4-MW Rantau Dedap geothermal power project in South Sumatra, Indonesia
• The export credit agencies and commercial bank lenders in the US$440 million project financing of the 80-MW Muara Laboh geothermal power project in West Sumatra, Indonesia
• The export credit agencies, commercial banks, and underwriters in the project financing of the US$7 billion Cameron LNG project in the United States, sponsored by Sempra Energy, GDF Suez, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Corp., and Mitsui & Co.
• The lenders in the US$20 billion financing and development of the offshore Ichthys LNG project in Western Australia
• The export credit agencies, commercial banks, and underwriters in the US$14 billion financing of the PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea
• NEXI and commercial banks in connection with the Solaben 2/3 and Solacor 1/2 IPP solar projects in Spain
• An export credit agency in the US$3.6 billion financing of the Liwa Plastics petrochemical project in Oman*
• An export credit agency in the US$1 billion financing of the Banten LNG regasification terminal project in Bojonegara, Indonesia*
• An export credit agency in the US$300 million financing of the 262-MW Ras Ghareb wind farm project in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt*
• Hitachi Plant Technologies in connection with joint ventures in Saudi Arabia with the El- Seif Group and in Qatar with SIS for the establishment of infrastructure and industrial construction companies in the Middle East

*This matter was handled whilst on secondment