John Maxwell

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John is the Asia head of energy and infrastructure, leading a team in Tokyo described as ‘one of the best in the market’, and a regional team that was awarded PFI’s inaugural Asia Law Firm of the Year in 2019.

John advises sponsors, lenders and export credit agencies on the development and financing of, and acquisitions in, world-scale and or new-market energy and infrastructure projects throughout the world. This includes offshore wind, LNG, petrochemical as well as conventional power projects. His experience also includes cross-border rail and large-scale infrastructure projects.

John is recognised in Chambers and Legal 500 as a leader in his field, with clients and peers commenting that ‘he has an outstanding reputation for project finance’, is ‘always inspiring’ and that ‘he is a big personality, very diplomatic in the way he presents and frankly a pleasure to deal with’.