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Kyle Koh

Counsel

Email

kyle.koh@aoshearman.com

Phone

+65 6230 3868

Offices

Singapore

V-CARD
Kyle advises sponsors, lenders and guarantors on international project development and financing, with a particular focus on the renewable energy and oil and gas sectors.

He also has experience in advising on transport, healthcare and utility infrastructure. He advises on both project finance and project development matters and has acted on complex award-winning first-in-kind and first-in-country transactions, including projects involving multiple development finance institutions and export credit agencies.

Kyle completed a one-year secondment at the Asian Development Bank.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • PETRONAS in respect of the development and financing (including bridge and long-term financing) of its approximately US$28 billion RAPID (Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development) refinery, cracker and petrochemicals project in Malaysia.
  • The Dow Chemical Company on the over US$10 billion debt restructuring (involving several ECA lenders, over 20 commercial banks and sukuk holders) of the Sadara petrochemicals project in Saudi Arabia.
  • Pertamina, Marubeni, and Sojitz as sponsors in relation to the development and financing of the US$1.7 billion Jawa 1 LNG to power project in Indonesia.
  • Masdar and PJBI, a subsidiary of Indonesian state-owned offtaker PT PLN, in connection with the development and financing of a 145MW floating solar PV project over the Cirata reservoir in Indonesia.
  • InterContinental Energy on its US$115 million Series B capital raise from GIC and Hy24.
  • IFC, ADB, BII and KEXIM on the financing of the 102MW Gulpur Hydropower Plant in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
  • PETRONAS in the sale to Saudi Aramco of a 50% interest in, and related joint venture and commercial arrangements for, the refinery and cracker complex and petrochemicals plants forming part of the RAPID project.
  • The Dow Chemical Company on the financing of its US$20 billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco, the Sadara petrochemicals project in Saudi Arabia.
  • The borrowers in respect of the acquisition, development, conversion and operation of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in El Salvador, which provides LNG regasification services to a 378 MW natural gas power plant owned by Energía del Pacífico. The FSRU will be the first regasification vessel deployed off the coast of El Salvador.
  • Golar LNG in relation to the development and financing of a floating liquefaction project offshore Equatorial Guinea.
  • ADNOC LNG in relation to its LNG marketing arrangements.
  • A bidder in relation to the sale of an approximately US$1 billion stake in a gas field in Oman.
  • Lenders on the US$12.5 billion joint venture for the Jazan IGCC / ASU project, the world’s largest integrated project for gasification (including hydrogen production) and combined cycle energy production.
  • A bidder in relation to the bidding for the development of the Kalimantan, Lampung, Saguling and Singkarak solar power projects in Indonesia.
  • Maybank, M-Exim, CIMB, RHB and Citibank, as lenders to Genting Energy on the 660 MW coal-fired Banten IPP in Indonesia.
  • IFC, ADB, IsDB and DEG on the financing of the Triconboston project (consisting of three 50MW wind power projects) in Sindh, Pakistan.
  • IFC, ADB, IsDB and KEXIM on the financing of the 150MW Patrind Hydropower Plant in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
  • IFC, ADB, IsDB and PROPARCO on the financing of the 84MW New Bong Escape Hydropower Project in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
  • ADB, IsDB and other lenders on the financing of the 50MW FWEL-I and 50MW FWEL-II wind power projects in Sindh, Pakistan.
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, ING Bank NV, DBS Bank Ltd, Bank of China Limited, Mizuho Bank Limited and Société Générale, on the MIGA-covered refinancing of the 220 MW Bhola Combined Cycle Gas Turbine project in Bangladesh.
  • Clifford Capital and SMBC on the financing of the Gazipur II 300 MW HFO IPP developed by the Summit group in Bangladesh.
  • IFC, BII, Clifford Capital and JICA on the financing of the 414 MW gas / 333 MW (HSD) Sirajganj 4 Power Project in Bangladesh.
  • PROPARCO on the financing of a 32MW solar photovoltaic power project in Egypt.
  • EBRD and ICD on the financing of the 45MW Shobak wind project in Jordan.
  • K-Sure, KDB and other lenders on the financing of Adaro’s and EWP’s quasi-mine-mouth 200MW Kalsel-1 coal-fired IPP in Indonesia.
  • ICBC, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and China Agricultural Bank, and over ten other lenders in connection with the US$4 billion Hassyan coal-fired power plant in Dubai, UAE.
  • A bidder in relation to a concession agreement for a cable car project in Manila, Philippines.
  • A consortium of developers in relation to their bid to develop and upgrade the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines.
  • CGIF as guarantor to the 480 billion IDR (US$34 million) three- and five-year bond and sukuk issuances by Polytama Propindo in Indonesia.
  • CGIF as guarantor to two separate five-year THB 2 billion (US$64 million) corporate bond issuances by Siamgas in Thailand.

Pro bono

  • Ran a financial literacy workshop for residents of the Star Shelter of the Singapore Council of Women’s Organizations (one of the four domestic violence shelters in Singapore) in partnership with Star Shelter and AIDHA (an award-winning charity that offers courses to low-income residents in Singapore).
  • Designed and conducted an advocacy and legal education workshop for underprivileged children in partnership with YMCA.

Qualifications

Admissions

Solicitor, England and Wales, 2017

Academic

LL.B, University College London, 2014

Legal Practice Course, Kaplan Law School, 2015

Languages

English
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.