John D. Inglis
Project Finance and InfrastructureEnergy
M&A
JOHN INGLIS is a counsel of Sidley Austin Nishikawa Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. His practice focuses on project finance and infrastructure, energy, and global financial services.
John has been advising Japanese clients for more than seven years, with a particular attention given to the Japanese megabanks, export credit agencies, trading houses, commercial lenders and other financial institutions in connection with their outbound investments in Asia and throughout the world.
Prior to joining Sidley in 2018, John was an associate in the project, energy and infrastructure finance group of another top tier international law firm in Tokyo.
Before moving to Japan in 2011, John worked at a leading New York law firm for over five years where his practice focused on acquisition and leveraged financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
Experience
- Representative Matters
In the past two years, John has advised:
- a Japanese megabank in connection with an equity bridge loan to a Japanese sponsor in connection with a natural gas-fired thermal power generation plant in New York state;
- multiple consortiums of Japanese and foreign commercial lenders in connection with the equity bridge financing of power projects in Indonesia;
- Japanese sponsors in connection with the financing of an LNG carrier;
- a Japanese trading company in connection with the partial sell-down of its interests in a greenfield gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania;
- a Japanese corporation in connection with its investment in the food sector in Asia and South America;
- a Japanese export credit agency in connection with its support for a bid by a Japanese sponsor to build and operate a utility scale solar PV power plant in the United Arab Emirates; and
- a Japanese asset management company in connection with its overseas infrastructure investments.
Prior to joining Sidley, John worked as in-house counsel at one of the Japanese export credit agencies.
Capabilities
- Banking and Financial Services
- Energy
- Global Finance
- M&A
- Project Finance and Infrastructure
- Alternative Energy
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Energy Finance
- Energy Projects
- Industrial Projects
- Infrastructure
- Structured Vehicles
- Syndicated and Leveraged Finance
News & Insights
Credentials
Admissions & Certifications
- New York
- GJB (Registered Foreign Lawyer in Japan)
- Tokyo Bar Association (New York)
Education
- University of Toronto, J.D., 2005
- Queen's University, B.A. (Hons), 2000