Dominic O'Brien

Dominic is an energy and infrastructure project finance lawyer with experience spanning the full lifecycle of projects and assets. His work includes greenfield project financing, secondary and brownfield acquisition financing, including leveraged acquisitions and portfolio and holding company financings for the acquisition and development of energy and infrastructure assets, as well as corporate financing for operational utilities, developers and energy providers.

Dominic advises infrastructure funds, private equity sponsors, banks, alternative credit providers, credit-support providers and corporate borrowers on UK domestic and international cross-border transactions. He has deep experience advising on emerging market transactions across EMEA and Asia, where he was based for eight years, including financings structured on a sharia-compliant basis.

Concentrations

• Energy and infrastructure finance
• Project finance
• Acquisition and leveraged finance
• Digital infrastructure and data centres
• Energy transition and renewables
• Sharia-compliant finance