Mark Phillips

Mark has more than twenty years' experience in advising on large scale infrastructure projects and project financing transactions. He works extensively in the energy and transport sectors and is widely acknowledged as one of Israel’s leading project finance lawyers.

Mark represents concessionaires, bidding groups, Israeli and international banks and financial institutions as well as the public sector in connection with large-scale infrastructure projects, such as toll roads, light rail systems and desalination facilities.

In the past few years, Mark has developed particular expertise in advising clients in connection with private electricity generation projects, both from conventional and renewable sources. Mark also advises clients in the upstream oil and gas sector, with particular emphasis on exploration and production of natural gas and natural gas sales. He has represented owners and operators of gas assets as well as lenders financing their activities.

In addition, Mark has considerable experience in advising on local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, with particular emphasis in the infrastructure field.

• Advises Israel Electric Corporation on the NIS 1.8bn sale of its Alon Tavor power plant
• Advises a consortium made up of Allied Infrastructures, Siemens Mobility, Paz and Minrav in the tender for the Tel Aviv Light Rail Green / Purple line project
• Acted as lead counsel for Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M and other institutional lenders on a USD 750M term loan facility for Energean Israel Finance Ltd., developer of the Karish and Tanin gas fields, for the refinancing of Energean Israel's 2026 limited notes and to provide additional liquidity for Katlan development.
• Acts for Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. and Israel Discount Bank Ltd. in connection with the NIS 4.25 billion financing for the new "Dalia 2" conventional power plant under development by the Dalia Energies Group.
• Representation of the Egged Group (in collaboration with an international corporation) in a nationally significant infrastructure tender for the operation of the Green Line and the Purple Line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail.

• Banking
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Project development
• Project finance

• Banking
• Energy
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Transport

• Israel

• LLB, Leeds University, 1993