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Rami Serhal

I am a debt finance lawyer with experience in project finance and general corporate lending across a wide range of sectors including energy & renewables, infrastructure, manufacturing and real estate.

Areas of Expertise

Finance
Debt Finance
Real Estate Finance
Green Energy
Projects & Infrastructure
Financial Services

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I am a debt finance lawyer with experience in project finance and general corporate lending across a wide range of sectors including energy & renewables, infrastructure, manufacturing and real estate.

Before joining Fladgate, I spent four years at a development bank in London, as an associate counsel working on project finance, debt and equity finance deals. Prior to that I was based in Beirut, Lebanon where I was doing similar type of work across the region.

I advise on a wide range of finance transactions, both on the borrower and lender side, with a particular focus on energy & renewables, infrastructure, manufacturing and real estate.

I have a passion for development finance and I was able to experience first-hand its impact on people’s lives.

I am trilingual with the ability to draft and negotiate in English, French and Arabic. My language capabilities allowed me to work on deals across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

When I am not working I enjoy travelling and going on long road trips discovering new cities and places around the world. I also enjoy reading, mainly politics and autobiographies.

Experience

Advising the borrower on a senior secured facility of £50m for the development and operation of a social housing PFI project in south London. The project delivered more than 400 tenanted properties, 500 private properties including 143 affordable homes and a new community centre and park.
Advising and negotiating a borrowing base facility of €180m to a private oil and gas, exploration and production company to finance the development of two offshore oil fields.
Advising and negotiating a senior secured non-recourse loan of $136m for the construction and operation of a solar photovoltaic power plant with a total capacity of 200MW.
Acting for a major US private bank on a senior secured facility for an amount of £333m for the refinancing of a high-end multi-story residential building in Westminster.
Acting for a major UK hotel operator on a syndicated credit facility secured from a pool of UK and international lenders for the financing of the borrower’s existing hotel portfolio consisting of 59 Holiday Inn Express and Hilton hotels across England, Wales and Scotland.

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