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About Danielle

Danielle Altink is an energy lawyer and focuses her practice on corporate, commercial and project matters in the oil and gas, infrastructure, power and mining sectors, including cross-border M&A, joint ventures and project development. She regularly advises international energy clients on corporate and commercial contracts, including traditional oil and gas commercial contracts and transaction documents applicable to the renewables industry. Danielle also has broad experience in the LNG sector, most notably advising Golar on the development of a floating LNG facility offshore Mauritania and Senegal, and lenders and project sponsors on the financing and development of LNG-to-power projects in Brazil and Indonesia.

Experience

Recent Notable Matters

Savannah Energy PLC — all-share acquisition of Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Nigeria Limited, the holder of a 49 percent participating interest in the Stubb Creek Field, Nigeria

Impact Oil & Gas Ltd — farmout of its interests in Blocks 2912 and 2913B offshore Namibia, which contain the Venus discovery, to TotalEnergies EP Namibia B.V.

ASCOM Precious Metals Mining — advising on the sale of its interests in the Kurmuk gold mine in Ethiopia to Allied Gold ET 2 Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allied Gold Corporation for a combination of shares, cash and deferred consideration

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures — on the establishment of a platform with Tyler Hill Partners to develop, construct and operate a portfolio of up to 1 GW of battery energy storage system projects across the United Kingdom

Storegga Geotechnologies Ltd — foundation equity financing with Macquarie and subsequent equity financings with GIC, Mitsui, Macquarie, M&G and SNAM

Storegga Geotechnologies Ltd — acquisition of Pale Blue Dot Energy, the lead developer of the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage Project at the St Fergus Gas Terminal in the UK

Golar LNG — provision of a floating LNG facility to the GTA Project offshore Mauritania and Senegal, including charter, construction, O&M, shareholder and financing arrangements*

International oil company — upstream concession and joint venture arrangements for a number of onshore interests in Kazakhstan*

Mitsui E&P UK Limited — sale of interests in the Britannia Filed of the UK Continental Shelf to Zennor Petroleum*

ADNOC — 2019 block bid licensing round*

E&P company — farm-in into an offshore block in Cyprus*

E&P company — number of licensing rounds for onshore and offshore interests, located in Mozambique and South Africa*

PETRONAS — development and financing as a joint venture with Saudi Aramco of the $28 billion “RAPID” refinery and petrochemical integrated development project in Malaysia, involving refinery, cracker and downstream projects*

Marubeni, Pertamina and Sojitz — development and financing of the 1,760 MW Jawa 1 LNG to Power Project in Indonesia*

Nevada Copper Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary Nevada Copper Inc. — offtake agreements for the Pumpkin Hollow underground copper mining project, located in Yerington, Nevada*

International Finance Corporation and KfW IPEX — financing of the Acu LNG to Power Project in Brazil*

Lenders — project financing of the 377 MWp Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant known as “El Llano” in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico*

Asian Development Bank — financing of four solar projects in Indonesia (3 x 5 MW in Lombok and 1 x 15 MW in South Sulawesi), to be developed and financed simultaneously*

Asian Development Bank — financing of the Tolo wind farm in Indonesia*

Lenders, including IFC — financing of a 50 MW Zorlu sponsored solar PV project in Pakistan*

Lenders, including IFC, ADB, DEG and IsDB — financing of 3 x 50 MW Triconboston wind farms in Pakistan*

Lenders — financing of the 50 MW Oursun solar project in Pakistan*

* Work completed prior to Bracewell

Credentials

Education

University of Law,
LPC with MsC
2016
Distinction
BPP Law School, UK,
Graduate Diploma in Law
2015
Distinction
University of Edinburgh,
M.A., (Hons)
2014
honours

Bar Admissions

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

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