Clifford Chance Advises on $1.09bn Saudi Electricity Company Loan

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Clifford Chance recently announced that a
team in the Washington D.C. office advised Export Import Bank of the United
States and Export Development Canada with respect to their agreement to loan
$1.09bn to Saudi Electricity Company. The Clifford Chance team was supported
by Al-Jadaan & Partners in Riyadh.

The Saudi Electricity Company said in a statement that the loan was meant to
finance the purchase of power generation units from the United States. The
units will help boost power generation capacity in Riyadh, the Saudi capital,
in addition to some areas in the eastern part of the country by about 2,900
megawatts.

The Clifford Chance team was lead by partner Lori Bean and included Colleen
Grygier in DC, as well as Mohamed Hamra-Krouha, a Clifford Chance partner
currently on secondment to Al Jadaan. The Al Jadaan team also included
Abdulaziz Al-Abduljabbar and Philip Yip.

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients
achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local
expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across
the four key markets of the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and
focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate
and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment;
litigation and dispute resolution. Clifford Chance has 30 offices in 21
countries with 3,800 legal advisers and also operates a 'best friends'
arrangement with AZB & Partners in India and a co-operation agreement with
Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm in Saudi Arabia.
Contact: Ashley A. Hill
212-880-5638
ashley.hill@cliffordchance.com

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Ashley A. Hill, +1-212-880-5638, ashley.hill@cliffordchance.com