Ashen Jugoo is a leading projects, finance and energy lawyer in South Africa and leader of the region’s Finance and Projects team. With extensive experience in project development, project and infrastructure finance and corporate finance, he also advises lenders and sponsors on public-private partnerships.
Leveraging his expertise in infrastructure development in the mining, telecommunication, transport, power and energy and information technology areas, he has advised clients on numerous cross-border projects in Africa, including mining, energy, and telecommunication projects.
Ashen advises on all aspects of limited recourse financing and has expertise in engineering, procurement and construction. In this area, he has advised on EPC/EPCM, operation and maintenance agreements, technical service agreements, power purchase agreements, and related legal services as relates to project financed transactions.
Clients praise Ashen in being “extremely pro-active in that he anticipates and provides solutions in reaction to problems on a transaction for us to consider instead of asking our thoughts on a problem - this is very valuable as most lawyers often want lenders to come up with solutions which they can then advise on”.
