Project Finance Partner Kelly Malone Joins King & Spalding in Singapore
04 December 2012 - 2:07AM
Marketwired
King & Spalding has recruited Kelly Malone, a specialist in
cross-border development and financing of major energy projects, as
a partner in its energy practice. Malone will be based in King
& Spalding's Singapore office. He joins from the Singapore
office of leading Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein, where he was a
partner and head of that firm's global projects team. Malone is
bringing with him a team of two senior lawyers and an associate.
"Kelly's power project and project finance business nicely
complements our strong worldwide oil and gas practice," said Ken
Culotta, leader of the King & Spalding's global transactions
practice group. "His presence and expertise increase our capability
in the power and project financing sectors, and allow us to offer
the full range of energy services throughout the Asian market, and
to expand our roster of clients."
Malone has built a practice that includes representing sponsors,
lenders, governments and state utilities in over 50 major mostly
power projects in 22 countries in Latin America, Africa, South Asia
and Southeast Asia. He is identified as one of the "world's leading
energy and natural resource lawyers" by Euromoney Institutional
Investor and as a regional expert on Asia and Latin America by
Chambers Global.
"We're very pleased to welcome Kelly and his team to the firm,"
said John Savage, managing partner of King & Spalding's
Singapore office. "Our Asian practice has historically focused on
oil and gas and arbitration, and the logical next step in growing
the business was to add a senior power projects partner with
substantial financing and Asia experience. So we're very fortunate
to have Kelly join us. We expect to build out our Asia team with
more lateral partner hires and internal promotions in different
practice areas in the short- to medium-term."
Malone said, "The opportunity to grow my practice from King
& Spalding's global platform, and in the company of such
talented energy lawyers, makes this an excellent move for me. I and
my team look forward to being part of the firm's expansion in the
energy sector and in Asia."
Malone joins a Singapore-based energy team which includes
partners Dan Rogers and Merrick White. King & Spalding hired
White, one of Asia's leading oil and gas lawyers, from Clifford
Chance in October.
King & Spalding's Singapore office serves as a hub for the
firm's work in energy projects and international arbitration
throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
King & Spalding's energy practice is one of the world's
largest, most experienced and most extensive. More than 250 lawyers
across a range of practice areas make up the firm's integrated
energy team. The group includes individuals who have been
practicing in the field for several decades, including former
in-house lawyers for leading global and national energy companies;
leaders of energy industry trade groups; and former managers,
engineers, scientists and government officials. The firm's energy
lawyers offer experience that spans every sector of the industry,
from oil and gas to power and renewables.
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