Project finance and PFI

Stibbe

Client Satisfaction

Stibbe‘s project finance team is well equipped to advise Dutch clients on project financing, PFI, PPP projects and financing of acquisitions. The team is jointly led by financing, construction, procurement and regulatory experts David Orobio de Castro, Marieke Driessen, Martin In de Braekt, and Ingmar de Groot from Amsterdam. The team has been involved with major PPP projects such as the A9 Badhoevedorp-Holendrecht and A24 Blankenburg connection over the last few years alongside off-shore wind park financings. Orobio de Castro and Driessen are well-versed in issues involving the energy tradition and have published a number of articles related to project financing and the ESG.

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Key clients

Macquarie Capital
Group of lenders including the European Investment Bank (EIB), KBC, Korea Development Bank, Belfius, KfW, BNG and SMBC as well as institutional investors Natixis, MEAG and Samsung Life Insurance
ING Capital
Groenleven
BAM
Van Oord
Ballast Nedam
Strukton
EIB
ING

Work highlights

Advised Macquarie Capital, on the tender, contracting and reaching financial close the PPP Project A9 Badhoevedorp-Holendrecht.
Advised the lenders, consisting of a mix of bank lenders and the EIB, on a PFI transaction providing finance to BAAK Blankenburg-Verbinding B.V.
Advised Absa Bank Limited on the financing of the acquisition by Infinity Power of Lekela Power.