Senior Advisor
CurrentPortland Advisers is an advisory boutique providing project finance advice to the Infrastructure, Energy & Mining and Telecoms sectors.At Portland, James has advised on a number of large project financings involving leading export credit agencies. Highlights include advising a group of 11 export credit agencies on the $30bn Yamal LNG project in Russia; advising Seaborn Networks on a $500m financing for the first ever direct sub-sea telecommunications cable between New York and Sao Paolo; advising Engie on its successful bids for two 740MW power projects in the Sultanate of Oman and advising the Gazprom-Bulgarian Government joint venture on the financing for the Bulgarian section of the South Stream gas transmission pipeline.