Rupert Burrows

Power and Water

• Advised a Japan-US nuclear alliance company as consortium leader of one of the three shortlisted bidders for the UAE Civil Nuclear Program.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company as EPC contractor on the PBMR nuclear power project in South Africa.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its acquisition of a 44 percent stake in Myanmar Power Pte Ltd.
• Advised a Japanese-Thai JV as owner in relation to the EPC contracts for 12 SPP Projects in Thailand.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as EPC contractor to Gulf JP on seven SPP Projects in Thailand.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as EPC contractor on the Tanjung Bin (2100 MW) coal fired power project in Malaysia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as EPC contractor on the Jimah (1400 MW) coal fired power project in Malaysia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as EPC contractor on the Port Dickson II (750 MW) thermal power project in Malaysia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as EPC contractor on the Prai (350 MW) gas fired power project in Malaysia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its acquisition (and on its subsequent sale) of a stake in SIPCO SPP in Thailand.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as successful bidder, sponsor and preferred equity financier on the US$6 billion acquisition and financing of a portfolio of IPP projects around the world from Edison Mission Energy.
• Advised a Japanese utility on its acquisition of a 40 percent stake in Chiahui Power Corporation (CPC) in Taiwan.
• Advised a Japanese export financing institution and commercial lenders on the Vung Ang 2 IPP in Vietnam.
• Advised a Japanese export financing institution on the financing of the Phu My 3 power project in Vietnam and the Mindanao power project in the Philippines.
• Advised a Japanese utility on the sale of its 50 percent interest in a Spanish Wind Farm.
• Advised a Japanese client on its acquisition of a stake in the Pendopo power project in Indonesia.
• Advised a Japanese client on its proposed acquisition of a stake in Bali Energy.
• Advised a Japanese client on its proposed acquisition of a wind farm in Canada.
• Advised a Singaporean utility on its re-powering and co-generation expansion project in Singapore.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as EPC contractor for the Tanjung Jati B expansion project in Indonesia.
• Advised Japanese sponsors on their participation in the 4x110 Nam Ngum 3 Lao-Thai cross border hydro power project.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company and a Japanese trading company as EPC contractors on the Haripur (365 MW) gas fired power project in Bangladesh.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company and a Japanese trading company as EPC contractors on the Vizag 1040 MW coal fired power station in Andhra Pradesh, India.

LNG

• Advised a Japanese utility on its strategic alliance with Engie in relation to LNG procurement.
• Advised a Japanese export financing institution and commercial lenders on the Donggi Senoro LNG project in Indonesia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its equity investment in QatarGas3.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its proposed investment in QatarGas4.
• Advised Japanese and French sponsors on the long term LNG SPAs for the sale into N. Asia from the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia.
• Advised sponsor on its investment into and offtake from Brass LNG Project in Nigeria.
• Advised a Japanese utility on an LNG portfolio sale and purchase agreement.
• Advised a Japanese utility on a long term LNG SPA form Malaysia LNG.
• Advised sponsor seller on the SPA issues on the Tangguh LNG projects in Indonesia.
• Advised Japanese buyer on the SPA issues on the Sakhalin II LNG Project.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its proposed participation in the Mariscal Sucre LNG Project in Venezuela.
• Advised PNG LNG project company on contracting and structuring issues.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on corporate issues on the Sakhalin I project.
• Advised a Japanese engineering company on the EPC contract for the Dahej LNG Terminal Project in Gujurat, India.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company on its EPC contract for a LNG storage facility in Taiwan.

Oil & Gas

• Advised Japanese sponsors on the development and financing of the Kangean field in Indonesia.
• Advised a Japanese oil exploration company on its joint bid to acquire the Murphy Oil's interest in six oil and gas blocks offshore Malaysia.
• Advised a national petroleum company on the negotiation of Production Sharing Contracts for onshore Blocks L and M in Brunei.
• Advised a Japanese oil exploration company on its acquisition of an interest in the Brae field in the North Sea.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on investments in three oil and gas fields off Western Australia and Indonesia (Java).
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its acquisition of an interest in the Langsa FPSO operating off Indonesia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its investment in a MOPU.

Petrochemicals

• Advised Japanese and local sponsors and local project company on Trinidad and Tobago Methanol and DME project.
• Advised Japanese and local sponsors on the Cilacap refinery project in Indonesia.
• Advised Japanese and local sponsors and the local project company on the development and project financing of a methanol production facility in Brunei.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on its acquisition of a stake in the Las Raffan Condensate Refinery in Qatar.
• Advised a Japanese trading company in relation to its acquisition of Shell's Liquid Petroleum Gas business in the Philippines.
• Advised a Japanese trading company and other Japanese consortium members on their acquisition of a 35 percent stake (via JAMC) and subsequent development and project financing of the SIPC Methanol Project in AI Jubail City Saudi Arabia.
• Advised a Japanese chemicals company on its joint venture tender and negotiations with Saudi Aramco for the development of the US$8 billion integrated refinery and petrochemicals facility at Rabigh on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia.
• Advised a Japanese export financing institution, a Japanese bank and other members of a consortium of international lenders on the financing of a US$300m Asian Silicone Monomer project in Thailand, a joint venture between Shin-Etsu Chemical, GE and Toshiba, and the largest silicones manufacturing plant in Asia.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as co-sponsor on the financing of Bataan Polyethylene Corporation's polyethylene plant in Marileves, Bataan, the Philippines.

Mining

• Advised a Japanese trading company as joint sponsor on the development and financing of the Bontang Coal Line in Kalimantan.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as joint sponsor on the development and financing of the Batu Hijau gold and copper mine in Indonesia.
• Advised a Japanese corporation on its bid for a stake in a uranium mine in Namibia.

Rail

• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company on its successful negotiation of US$3.5 billion turnkey EPC contract for the Dubai Light Rail Project in Dubai.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company on the Bangkok subway project.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company on the Taiwan bullet train project.
• Advised a Japanese multinational industrial company on the Delhi metro project.
• Advised a Japanese trading company on the long term supply of newly manufactured and refurbished locomotives to Spoornet, a division of Transnet Limited of South Africa, under the Spoornet Main Line Investment Program.
• Advised a Japanese trading company as contractor on the Light Rail System for the Palm Jumeirah.

University of Birmingham, LLB

• England und Wales
• Japan (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi)