Robert William Aulsebrook
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Project Debt & Equity Finance
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Seeding Transactions
- Hedge Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Islamic Finance
- Project Development
- Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Mining
- Oil & Gas
- Investment Management
- Conventional Power
- Wind
- Renewable Energy
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Climate Change
- Energy Transition
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Institutional Investors
- Fund Formation
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Focuses on international debt finance, capital markets and derivatives.
- Advises extensively on financing and investment in Russia and elsewhere in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Robert Aulsebrook advises corporate borrowers, lenders, investment funds, investment fund managers, corporate investors, high-net-worth individuals and other market parties on a wide variety of finance and derivatives issues in the London market.
For borrowers and lenders, Robert provides advice on terms of primary market loans, loan participations and secondary market trading of debt. He also provides advice to issuers and purchasers of equity and debt instruments, depository receipts, Eurobonds, convertible debt securities and commercial paper.
Robert provides advice on the creation and structure of financial market instruments, including:
- Debt instruments
- Swaps and derivatives
- Securities loans
- Repos
- Futures and options.
He also assists with issues related to U.K. regulatory issues, including client money protection and asset custody requirements.
Robert has particular experience providing advice on financing and investment in Russia and elsewhere in the CIS.
Advised LUKOIL on a number of matters, including:
- A $500 million revolving credit facility arranged by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.; Citibank N.A.; AO Raiffeisenbank; Raiffeisenbank International AG; Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited; and UniCredit S.p.A.
- A $300 million revolving credit facility with ING Bank for a subsidiary, Lukinter Finance B.V.
- A $500 million financing for the Gissar gas field in Uzbekistan.
- A Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $1 billion, 10-year 4.750 percent notes by LUKOIL International Finance B.V. and guaranteed by PJSC “LUKOIL.”
LanguagesRussian
Russian
EducationJ.D., Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, 1989
B.A., Vanderbilt University, magna cum laude, 1986
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, 1989
B.A., Vanderbilt University, magna cum laude, 1986
Bar AdmissionsNew York
Solicitor, England and Wales
New York
Solicitor, England and Wales
- The Legal 500 UK, Leading Partner: Debt Capital Markets, 2021-2025, Key Lawyer: Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans, 2019-2024.
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Banking and Finance: Borrower Side, 2020-2021.
- Chambers UK, Banking and Finance, 2017 and 2018.
- Who’s Who Legal, Energy, 2017.
- IFLR 1000 UK, Banking and Capital Markets: Debt, 2019.
