Dimitri Papaefstratiou

Dimitri is a senior project finance lawyer with a strong track record of advising major clients in connection with complex energy and infrastructure projects. Dimitri acts for sponsors, lenders and tendering authorities on a wide range of projects across the Mediterranean, Africa and across EMEA. His focus is on energy, including oil & gas, hydrogen, renewable energy and high-efficiency thermal and gas-fired power projects.

Dimitri is listed as a “Leading Individual” in the London market by Legal 500 for both Oil & Gas and Power (including renewables).

• Advised the sponsors in connection with the comprehensive restructuring of the $3 billion Damietta LNG plant in Egypt.
• Advised the EPC contractor and vendor financier in connection with the 200MW gas-fired Bridge Power Project in Ghana (awarded “Best Utility Project” and “Best Financing Structure” at the Partnerships Awards 2019).
• Advised a major government-owned investor in connection with its participation in a tender for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a nuclear fuel assembly fabrication facility in the MENA region.
• Advised an EPC contractor and vendor financier in connection with the restructuring of the project financing arrangements for a $3 billion hydro-cracker refinery in Egypt.
• Advised a strategic investor in connection with the greenfield development and project financing of a new 200MW combined heat and gas-fired power plant in North Macedonia.
• Advised the lenders in connection with the project financing of a revenue osmosis desalination plant in West Africa.
• Advised a consortium participating in the tender for the proposed privatization of the 568MW Benin gas-fired power project in Nigeria.
• Advised a consortium participant in connection with the construction of a major Scotland-England HVDC power interconnector.
• Advising a purchaser in connection with its $1 billion acquisition of oil producing assets in West Africa and an associated multi-source acquisition financing.
• Advised a global EPC and O&M contractor in connection with its acquisitions, disposals and financings of a number of renewable energy projects across Europe.
• Advised a developer in connection with two disposals of solar power projects in Spain.
• Advised a renewable energy company in connection with a number of renewable energy sales in Europe.
• Advised a developer in connection with a number of green ammonia projects in Western Europe and EMEA.
• Advised an energy company in respect of the financing of its $1.9 billion acquisition of the upstream oil and gas assets of an independent E&P company in Nigeria.
• Advised the international sponsor in connection with the development and financing of a marine fabrication and integration yard and associated port facilities in the context of the deployment of the $3 billion FPSO destined for the Egina project.
• Advised a consortium in relation to the acquisition and acquisition financing of the 414 MW Geregu gas-fired power plant in the context of the PHCN privatisation in Nigeria.
• Advised an international financial institution in relation to the procurement, by way of DBFM Contract, of a toll motorway project in Republic of North Macedonia.
• Advised the DFI lenders in connection with the proposed project financing of a 20MW PV and Battery Storage Project in Francophone West Africa.
• Advised ECA-backed lenders in connection with the financing of a mixed-use real estate development in Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, Nigeria.
• Advised ECA-backed lenders in connection with the financing of the expansion of existing port facilities at Onne Port Complex, Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone, Rivers State, Nigeria.
• Advised the sponsors in connection with the landmark project financing (in excess of £2 billion) of the West Coast Mainline rolling stock procurement as part of the Intercity Express Programme in the United Kingdom.
• Advised the DFIs and ECA-backed lenders in connection with the financing of a telecoms operator in Tanzania.

• Leading lawyer for Projects, Energy and Natural Resources–Oil & Gas in Legal 500 United Kingdom, 2024
• Leading lawyer for Projects, Energy and Natural Resources–Power (including Electricity, Nuclear and Renewables) in Legal 500 United Kingdom, 2024