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Rashpaul Bahia is an associate in the law firm McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in it London office. He is a member of the Banking & Finance Group, where his practice primarily focuses on energy and derivatives transactions, representing banks and energy and commodity companies on a variety of transactional, cross-border regulatory and risk management issues. Rashpaul has also worked on a number of cross-border financing transactions, debt restructurings, project financings and transactions involving power companies.
Rashpaul has considerable experience advising clients on the documentation of both financially-settled and physically-settled commodities transactions involving emissions, coal, oil, gas and power, including the negotiation and analysis of such agreements. Rashpaul has also worked on a number of structured commodities transactions advising on such matters as tolling agreements, trading services agreements and transactions involving Kyoto Mechanisms such as Clean Development Mechanisms. Rashpaul’s knowledge about cross-border regulatory issues has enabled him to advise clients on responses to consultations by regulators on the liberalisation of the European energy markets.
Rashpaul has also completed a nine month secondment to the commodities trading desk of a major US investment bank where he was responsible for negotiating energy trading documentation as well as advising on transactional and regulatory issues arising in respect of commodities transactions.
Representative Experience
Representation of Merrill Lynch on its acquisition of the energy trading business of Entergy-Koch
Advising banks and energy and commodity companies on the documentation of their commodities transactions and relationships, involving master trading agreements such as ISDAs, EFETs, GTMAs and NBPs
Advising a major US investment bank on its UK commodities trading operations and also coordinating, managing and reviewing a multi-jurisdictional due diligence project in over 80 jurisdictions on transactional and regulatory issues
Advising on tolling agreements involving emissions, coal, oil and power
Advising a leading investment bank in relation to offtake arrangements with a large coal fired power station
Advising Korea Asset Management Corporation on the acquisition of approximately US$4 billion of distressed debt from companies within the Daewoo group
Acting for the Sponsors in relation to the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a submerged tunnel motorway in Greece
Education:
College of Law, Guildford. | 