Practice
Nicholas Buckworth is an English solicitor and Shearman & Sterling’s Managing Partner for the Europe/Middle East/Africa region and for the firm’s London office.

The Chambers UK 2010 guide has recommended Mr. Buckworth as a Leader in their field for Projects & Energy. He was named recently in Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers, a survey of expert legal advisers to the international project finance market and named as one of Legal 500’s “highly recommended” lawyers in the project finance market.

He joined Shearman & Sterling as a partner in 1996.

• Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and Bayerische Landesbank in relation to all commercial aspects relating to the Croydon Tramlink project, a 30 year concession to construct, operate and maintain a tram system over a 29 km stretch of South London
• European Investment Bank in relation to its £200 million financing towards the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, a 109 km twin track high-speed passenger and freight line between London’s St Pancras Station and the Channel Tunnel
• DVB Bank AG as lenders in relation to the $55 million financing of the acquisition and expansion of the Curacao Airport
• Bechtel, as sponsor, in relation to the £4 billion financing of the upgrade and maintenance of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines forming part of the London Underground PPP
• WestLB regarding the $1 billion Wembley National Stadium
• Leading the team advising one of the three shareholders responsible for the London Underground Tube Lines PPP
• Advising one of the two successfully short listed bidders to BAFO for the £1 billion expansion of the Manchester Metrolink Light Rail Project in the UK
• Advising WestLB AG as sole underwriter to the refinancing of the US$630 million Arlandabanan Light Rail Project in Sweden (one of the first European light rail PPPs)
• Advising on the US$1.8 billion Bangkok Skytrain (elevated rail) Project in Thailand
• Project company in relation to the SEK 4.5 billion construction and operation of the Arlanda Express, a 42 km high speed rail link between Stockholm Central Railway Station and the city’s main airport

• Sonangol in relation to Angola LNG, including the development of an LNG Regasification Facility
• Advising the Project Company in relation to the development of financing of the Galsi Pipeline from Algeria to Italy
• Advising the Project Company in relation to the Medgaz Pipeline from Algeria to Spain
• Electricity Supply Board of the Republic of Ireland in the project financing of the Amorebieta Power Project, an US$874 million, 755 MW combined-cycle gas-fired electric generating facility in Spain
• Dolphin Energy in relation to the development, tendering and award of the Project EPC contract
• Intergen and Enka in relation to the development and financing of the Adapazari, Gebze and Izmir BOO Projects, 777MW, 1554MW and 1523MW gas-fired power plants in Turkey
• Lenders and borrowers in relation to a number of gas supply agreements in the United Kingdom including in relation to the Humber Power, Coryton and Spalding IPPs

• KEPCO in relation to the development of a Nuclear Independent Power Project in Turkey including in respect of the Inter-Governmental Agreement between Turkey & Korea
• Lenders to International Power and Mitsui in relation to the US$900 million facility for the acquisition of the international power generating assets of Edison Mission Energy
• Lenders in connection with CIC Energy’s US$3 billion (approximate) development of the Mmamabula Energy Project, a 1320MW power station and integrated coal mine to be built in multiple phases at the Mmamabula coalfield in Botswana, Africa
• Lenders to International Power and Mitsui in relation to the US$900 million facility for the acquisition of the international power generating assets of Edison Mission Energy
• A bidder in connection with the proposed acquisition of British Energy Group plc
• MARAFIQ in relation to the development of a Tender for a 2,400MW and 300,000m3 p/d IWPP in Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Lenders on the US$1.6 billion financing of Shuweihat S1, an independent 1,500MW power generation and 100 MIGD water desalination facility developed by ADWEA, CMS and International Power in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Lenders in relation to Taweelah A2, a 710MW power generation and 50 MIGD sea water desalination plant in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• The Dow Chemical Company in relation to the development of the US$30 billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco (Sadara) to build and operate a world-scale, fully integrated chemicals complex in Jubail Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• The Dow Chemical Company in connection with its US$19 billion petrochemicals joint venture with Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait
• Oman Petrochemical Industries Company on the US$3 billion petrochemical development, construction and financing of a world scale petrochemicals project in Oman sponsored by The Omani Ministry of Finance, Oman Oil and Dow Chemical
• Advising the sponsors in relation to the acquisition of a petrochemicals facility in Libya and the subsequent financing and construction of a US$20 billion world scale ethane cracker
• Borealis A/S in relation to its bid for the European petrochemical assets of DSM
• Borealis A/S in relation to a number of petrochemicals joint ventures