Ross Howard

Practice Areas

Ross Howard is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Team and a member of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and our Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure Sector Groups.

Ross specialises in advising sponsors and lenders in connection with the development and financing of complex and large-scale projects in the renewable energy, power, oil and gas, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience advising on the structuring, negotiation and financing of large-scale international projects across Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe.

He is ranked Band 2 in Projects & Infrastructure: International (Singapore) and named as a Foreign expert for Projects, Infrastructure & Energy in Vietnam by Chambers Asia Pacific 2025. He is also considered a 'Leading Partner' for Projects (Foreign Firms) by Legal 500.

Ross is currently based in Singapore and has worked in several Clifford Chance offices, including Paris and Tokyo.

Career

King's College London School of Law (LL.B., English and French Law) 1996

Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maîtrise, Private Law) 1998

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2002

Joined Clifford Chance, Paris 2011

Partner since 2013

Clifford Chance, Tokyo 2013

Registered as Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (England & Wales) 2013

Joined Clifford Chance 2018