Henry (Hyun Jik) Sohn

Henry has a wide range of finance experience, including project finance, ECA-backed finance, acquisition finance, structured finance and restructuring. He has advised clients, both financiers and sponsors, on projects in the power, renewables, transportation, social infrastructure and oil/refinery sectors around the globe.

Other noteworthy experience includes advising:

• K-sure and the covered lenders on a USD660m financing to Lukoil’s subsidiary in Uzbekistan in respect of the construction of its gas processing complex.
• The funders in respect of the USD600m construction, development, operation and financing of a PPP healthcare project in Gaziantep, Turkey.
• KEXIM, JBIC, NEXI, EIB and AfDB and a number of commercial lenders on the restructuring of the financing provided in respect of the USD3.7bn second-stage oil refinery complex in Mostorod, Egypt.
• A Korean sponsor on the construction, development, operation and financing of a hydropower project in Georgia.
• EBRD, Proparco and other IFIs in relation to a number of projects which are part of the Egyptian FiT programme. This deal was awarded ‘MENA Infrastructure Programme of the Year 2017’ by IJ Global.
• UKEF and Banco Santander, S.A. on the project financing of a fleet of buses to be supplied by Alexander Dennis Ltd to be used on the new Line 7 of the Metrobus route in Mexico City. This deal was awarded ‘Export Project Finance Deal of the Year - Mexico’ by the Global Trade Review in 2017.
• The lenders on the USD1.6bn refinancing of the development of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan 1768km long 1.2mbbl/day capacity pipeline reaching from Baku, Azerbaijan through Tbilisi, Georgia to Ceyhan, Turkey.
• The senior coordinating committee, comprising a global financial services group, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank and EQT Credit, on the restructuring of Cory Environmental, one of the largest recycling and waste management companies in the UK.
• IFC and AfDB on the financing to Dangote in respect of two of its projects in Nigeria.
• The funders on the refinancing of portfolios of UK PPP assets (including Blackpool Council Street Lighting, Bristol Leisure Center, Derbyshire Springwell and Bolsover Schools, Greenwich BSF,Cambridgeshire BSF PFI, and Wigan Joint Services Centre PFI) owned by an infrastructure fund.