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Graham Vinter

Senior Of Counsel

London +44 20 7067 2062

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    Graham Vinter is chair of Covington’s global Project Finance Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm, he was General Counsel of BG Group plc (2007-2015) and a member of BG Group’s Group Executive Committee, reporting to the Chief Executive.

    Whilst General Counsel at BG Group, Graham was involved in a number of projects, including the company’s largest ever project, an LNG liquefaction plant and related upstream development in eastern Australia with a combined capital cost in excess of $20 billion. In his previous career in private practice, he was involved in numerous infrastructure and energy projects around the globe, including road and rail transportation projects in Europe, power projects in Europe and Asia and LNG liquefaction projects in the Middle East.

    Prior to joining BG Group, Graham spent 27 years with a UK Magic Circle firm, including just under 20 years as a partner, and was the Global Head of its projects practice from 1996 to 2007.

    Graham was also a member of the Executive of GC100 (the Association of General Counsel and Company Secretaries of the FTSE 100) from 2010 to January 2016 and was elected to a two-year term as Chair of the organization in January 2014.

    Graham is the founding author and now co-author of Project Finance, published by Sweet & Maxwell and now in its 4th edition (2013).

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    Education
    • University of Oxford, B.A., 1979
        • Hons (Jurisprudence)
        • first class honors
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1978
    Bar Admissions
    • Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
    Languages
    • English
    Accolades
    • Infrastructure Journal, Lifetime achievement award
    • Legal 500, GC Powerlist 2015: Energy
    • Legal 500 UK Awards, Individual In-house Lawyer Award (2013)
    • Who's Who Legal, Global Leader Energy (2020)
    • Who’s Who Legal, Project Finance Lawyer of the Year Award (2005, 2006, and 2007)

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