King & Spalding is a Atlanta-based international law firm with over 1100 lawyers across 23 offices. Its Tokyo office was established in 2015.

Focusses / specialisms

The firm is best known for its projects work where it is active in energy, renewable energy and oil and gas mandates. 

Key clients

Key clients of the firm include Mitsui & Co, Marubeni Corporation, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Électricité de France, Keppel Capital Holdings, Korea East-West Power Corporation and MODEC.

Research period review: 30th edition (2019/2020)

The firm’s projects team has kept busy in the past 12 months advising on outbound projects including project bonds, IPPs and IWPPs, gas projects, cogeneration projects, infrastructure funds, LNG projects, and offshore wind mandates in Mexico, Brazil, Senegal, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Guam, Myanmar and Vietnam. 

Deal highlights: 30th edition (2019/2020)

-Fujairah 3 IWPP

-Keppel Asia Infrastructure Fund

-MV24 Capital $1.1 billion 6.748% project bond issue

-Sepia MV30 FPSO Project

Client feedback: 30th edition (2019/2020)

Investment funds

“Meeting deadlines and negotiating legal points with counterparties.”

Project development

“Trustworthiness and gets the work done in a timely manner.”

Project finance

“They are very practical and hands-on. They have very smart people.”