I am a highly experienced corporate, commercial, projects and finance lawyer - currently based in the UK. I have gained experience at the most senior levels in private practice and also inhouse.My main strengths are my drafting abilities and my ability to negotiate a positive outcome for employer/clients. I also have excellent communication skills and am adept at dealing with people from various backgrounds, cultures and nationalities. Plus, my knowledge of numerous legal systems around the World is quite rare.I have extensive international and domestic banking and restructuring experience developed - with over 30 years' experience.My specialist expertise is in limited and non-recourse financings in the resources, property and renewables sectors. Plus, I have worked on and led project financing transactions in a number of jurisdictions, including Anglophone, Francophone and Africa, North and South America, the Caribbean, UK, Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and Australia. My skill set includes drafting and negotiating various contracts, including terms sheets, project and property financing documents, major project contracts, share purchase agreements, off takes, joint venture agreements, earn ins, sale and purchase agreements, royalty agreements, PPAs, MOUs, NDAs and leases.In my roles as general counsel of several UK and West African mining companies, I have brought a strong degree of discipline to risk management, compliance and litigation in various jurisdictions and management of legal teams in various jurisdictions including the UK, Australia and Africa.In particular, I have a strong track record of drafting/negotiating major contracts in the mining sector, including road/rail/port contracts, land access agreements concession and mining development agreements around the World, including West Africa. Plus, I have led significant litigation in various courts in the UK/Africa.