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    Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd. - Loan Financing for the Vietnam Block B Gas Field Development

Nishimura & Asahi advised Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd. (MOECO), a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. [TSE: 8031], on financing for the Vietnam Block B Gas Field Development.

The Nishimura & Asahi team advising MOECO was led by partner Teruyuki Yamamoto, supported by Takehiro Sekine and Wataru Inagaki on financing and Kazuhide Ohya on Vietnamese legal issues.

People

山本 輝幸

Teruyuki has extensive expertise in the areas of PPP/PFI, power and energy resources, and project finance. In particular, Teruyuki has extensive expertise in concession and other standard PFI and PPP projects as a public counsellor, and he provides advice on the public, business, and financial institution sides, based on the client's perspective. Teruyuki has also handled many project finance transactions for wind power generation projects, solar power generation projects, and biomass power generation projects under the Renewable Energy Act, both on the project side and on the financial institution side. In addition, Teruyuki has experience of being seconded to the natural resource and environmental finance department of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC), and he is able to provide practical advice on power and natural resource and energy projects.

大矢 和秀

Kazuhide OHYA

  • Partner
  • Tokyo Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh City

Stationed in Singapore in 2010 and in Vietnam since 2013, and supported foreign investors in their investments and business development in South East Asia. Provided legal advice on various projects including the following: • M&A deals • infrastructure development projects including smart city, road, and railway • natural resources and energy projects including renewable energy projects • real-estate development projects including residential housing, commercial/logistics, offices, hospitality properties, complex buildings Kazuhide has also advised foreign invested companies in South East Asia in various areas, such as labor, trade, information security, digital regulations, crisis management, and compliance.