Clint Dempsey

Clint has been in the Middle East since 2012 and deals with all aspects of banking and finance, including project finance, trade finance, real estate and development finance, Islamic finance, acquisition finance and asset based lending.

Clint acts for a range of international and Middle East financial institutions, as well as advising borrowers on their loan and security documentation, and leads a team which has substantial experience particularly in the financing of renewable energy projects and trade finance deals, but which also is experienced across a wide range of financing structures.

A selection of Clint’s recent experience includes advising:
• a syndicate of Middle East banks on a US$1.5bn conventional facility to be made available to a GCC-government department.
• a syndicate of Middle East banks on a US$2.5bn duel-trach (conventional and Islamic) facility to be made available to a GCC oil company.
• a Middle East bank in relation to the restructuring of US$4.5bn syndicated and bilateral facilities provided to a regional conglomerate
• a UAE conglomerate on a US$227m Islamic syndicated financing package for the development of 13 sites across the UAE
• a UAE conglomerate on the acquisition of 25,000 hectares of agricultural land in Serbia, funded through a syndicated facility arranged by an international bank
• The sponsors and project company on the syndicated and secured financing of the development of the hotel complex in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
• a Middle East investment bank in relation to a US$25m trade finance facility made available to an oil company, secured against the sale of receivables and other assets in Congo, Norway, Morocco and England
• a Saudi investment company on a SAR1.4bn syndicated Islamic facility for the acquisition of several malls in Saudi Arabia