Inderveer Hothi
Partner
ihothi@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Oil & Gas
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Project Debt & Equity Finance
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Wind
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Transition
- Private Credit
- Leveraged Finance
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Solar
- Private Capital
Biography
- Inderveer is one of the accomplished lawyers who was promoted to the partnership, effective January 1, 2022. Watch the video to meet Inderveer here.
- Practice focuses on debt finance transactions across the credit spectrum covering a wide variety of industries and jurisdictions, particularly in emerging markets.
Inderveer represents corporate borrowers, funds, institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals and financial institutions on a broad range of financing arrangements, including:
- Corporate finance transactions
- Private placements
- Direct lending
- Financial restructuring
- Junior capital
- Fund financings
- Cross-border acquisitions
- Project finance transactions
- Leveraged finance transactions
- Eurobonds.
Representative Work
- Advised PJSC LUKOIL on the successful completion of its issuance of $2.3 billion Eurobonds listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. The offering consisted of (i) $1.15 billion 2.80 percent 5.5-year notes due 2027 and (ii) $1.15 billion 3.60 percent 10-year notes due 2031. The notes were issued by LUKOIL Capital DAC and guaranteed by PJSC LUKOIL with the transaction completing on October 26, 2021.
- Represented an ad hoc group of creditors of Premier Oil in connection with restructuring negotiations and Scottish schemes of arrangement.
- Advised PJSC LUKOIL on the $1 billion project financing for the development of the Shah Deniz gas fields in Azerbaijan (awarded IJ Global European Oil & Gas Deal of 2015 and shortlisted for Finance Deal of the Year: Project Financing at the Asia Legal Awards 2016 and shortlisted for Legal Business finance team of the year 2016).
- Advised PJSC LUKOIL (Russia) as guarantor and LUKOIL Overseas Uzbekistan Limited (Cyprus) as borrower on a $660 million export credit financing to fund the construction of a gas processing complex in Uzbekistan in connection with the development of the Kandym gas fields (awarded TXF: Perfect 10 Deal of the Year 2018).
- Advised Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Company (ADWEC) and a consortium comprising Marubeni Corporation and JinkoSolar on a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 1,177 MW Sweihan Solar PV Independent Power Project in Abu Dhabi (named PFI Middle East & Africa Power Deal of the Year 2018, IJGlobal Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Solar Deal of the Year 2018 and Asian-MENA Counsel Deal of the Year 2018).
EducationL.P.C., The College of Law, London, 2007
LL.B. (Hons), University of Sheffield, with honors, 2006
L.P.C., The College of Law, London, 2007
LL.B. (Hons), University of Sheffield, with honors, 2006
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
Recognitions
- IFLR 1000 UK, Rising Star, Banking, Project Finance and Asset Finance, 2020.
- The Legal 500 UK, Emerging Markets and Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans, 2020-2022.