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China Development Bank – Venezuela dual-loan facility

- $20,000.00 m

Entry date - Thursday, 12 August 2010
Jurisdiction - China
Practice - Project Finance
China Development Bank – Venezuela dual-loan facility

Firm - Hogan Lovells Client - Petroleos de Venezuela and Bandes Lead Lawyers - Bruno Ciuffetelli, Jose Valdivia, Keith Larson, Ken Hawkes, Luis Bottaro, Wei Jun Role - Counsel to Borrower	Firm - White & Case Client - China Development Bank Lead Lawyers - Xiaoming Li Role - Counsel to Lender

Firm - Hogan Lovells
Client - Petroleos de Venezuela and Bandes
Lead Lawyers - Bruno Ciuffetelli, Jose Valdivia, Keith Larson, Ken Hawkes, Luis Bottaro, Wei Jun
Role - Counsel to Borrower

Firm - White & Case
Client - China Development Bank
Lead Lawyers - Xiaoming Li
Role - Counsel to Lender

Deal summary

The loan is the largest credit line that CDB has extended to any country

China agreed to lend Venezuela US$4bn to finance development projects in return for future oil supplies

Petroleos de Venezuela and China National Petroleum Corp also signed a separate US$16.3bn JV agreement for a project that will pump one million barrels a day of oil for Chinese refineries

White & Case is one of CDB’s long term legal advisors; the firm previously advised the bank on in a US$8.4bn two-phase financing of the Taishan Project

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