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Gabriel Mpubani is an associate in the London office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and is a member of the Global Project Finance Department. Gabriel's experience goes beyond pure project finance to include other forms of leveraged finance transactions in Europe, North America, Africa and the Middle East.
Gabriel's most recent experience includes representing:
the lenders in the $428 million multi-tranche project financing of the Unicem cement and power plant in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria;
the Goldman Sachs-led consortium on the proposed �10 billion acquisition of the U.K. airport operator, BAA;
the lenders on the Azelis acquisition and refinancing;
the lenders in the US$1 billion Lumwana copper mine project financing in Zambia;
the lenders on the Emirates greenfield cement project in the UAE;
the sponsors on the �1.65 billion Cognis refinancing; and
the sponsors in the financing of a US$2.6 billion shared ethane cracker/polyethylene processing facility in Al-Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.
Gabriel is currently advising the finance parties on the Kouilou potash project in the Republic of Congo.
Prior to joining Milbank, Gabriel worked with Clifford Chance LLP in London and Shonubi, Musoke & Co. Advocates in Kampala, Uganda.
A winner of the Dean's List and Chief Justice of Uganda Prize, Gabriel obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1999 with top honours at Makerere University and completed his Master of Law degree in 2001 at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 2002, winning the Uganda Law Society Prize, the highest achievable nationwide. Gabriel is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and is also a member of the Law Society of England and Wales. | 