Tom Longmuir

Tom leads a cross-cutting emerging markets finance practice focused on development and impact finance, specialising in complex first-in-kind and largest-in-kind financings throughout the SSA, MENAT and CEE/CIS regions. Private capital mobilisation is a key theme of Tom’s practice, with particular emphasis on blended financings that create additionality and support the Sustainable Development Goals.

He has acted on and led many of the most significant multilateral credit-supported financings throughout Africa, including with the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, Africa Finance Corporation, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association, in a variety of transactions from bank debt through to bonds, derivatives and long-term power purchase agreements. Many of these financings are designed to support national Sustainable Frameworks and/or are sustainability-aligned. He also acted on the inaugural Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank partial debt guarantee in Türkiye, for green and social infrastructure projects.

Tom has led and acted on many of the largest ECA-backed infrastructure financings throughout EMEA, from logistics/transportation, motorways, high-speed rail and defence through to social infrastructure projects including clean water, healthcare and education, working with Atradius, Bpifrance Assurance Export, CESCE, EIFO, EKN, Euler Hermes, SACE, UK Export Finance and US Ex-Im amongst others.

Tom acted for MIGA on the establishment of their inaugural trade finance guarantee programme as part of the World Bank Group Guarantees Platform. He has acted and advised on development financings supported by multilateral treaty insurers including ATIDI and ICIEC as well as private credit and political risk insurers.

He is recognised as a leading individual in Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and other leading industry journals, and often speaks and contributes at major industry conferences.