Davide Barzilai
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Davide Barzilai is a banking and finance lawyer based in London (being English and Hong Kong law qualified) having previously worked in our Hong Kong and Singapore offices.
Davide has substantial experience of advising lenders and borrowers in the following markets: corporate loans (including syndicated, bilateral and asset based lending); structured trade and commodity finance; supply chain financing; asset finance (particularly within the shipping sector); ECA supported financing; and Islamic finance.
Davide is recognised in Legal 500 UK's 2025 Bank Lending guide as having a wide experience in different areas of bank lending, including ECA-supported mandates, ABL and Islamic finance, reporting that "Davide Barzilai is a great lawyer with a particularly wide range of experience, making him very well placed to deal with projects covering different types of banking products in multiple jurisdictions."
Professional experience
Collapse all- Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
- Advising multiple lender groups in relation to proposed corporate reorganisation of Olam Group companies and its impact on existing facility agreements and advising on required amendments.
- Developed Norton Rose Fulbright's AI led review and amendment platform offering in relation to LIBOR Transition utilising a people, process and technology approach to large scale global portfolio management.
- Advising a leading G-SIB in relation to its global review of its facility documentation as part of its LIBOR Transition programme.
- Advising a leading APAC headquarted bank in relation to its global LIBOR Transition programme.
- Advising a French bank in relation to its global LIBOR Transition programme.
- Advising a Dutch bank in relation to its global LIBOR Transition programme and amendment of its loan documentation portfolio.
- Advising a Singapore bank in relation to its LIBOR Transition programme and amendment of its loan documentation portfolio.
- Advising a leading PRC property company listed in Hong Kong with respect to a HK$12bn self-arranged term loan facility with 15 lenders led by Bank of China Hong Kong.
- Advising Ping An Bank with respect to a US$150m secured cross border financing for a PRC clean energy company.
- Advising China Development Bank, Hong Kong Branch with a broad range of bilateral loan facilities to PRC based state owned enterprises and leading private companies with security and subsidiaries in Hong Kong, USA and various European countries.
- Advising Société Générale, and a syndicate of twelve other lenders, on Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited’s first syndicated loan facility for US$165 million.
- Advising TIPTOP Energy Limited (TIPTOP) and Sinopec Century Bright on a US$3.5 billion five-year syndicated term loan facility which was guaranteed by China Petrochemical Corporation.
- Advising Barclays Bank in connection with a senior secured facility with Nord Anglia Education, a leading global operator of premium private schools in China, Switzerland and Central Europe.
Insights
The outlook for 2023: What to expect in the syndicated loans market
Publication | January 02, 2023
IBOR transition
Publication | November 28, 2022
IBOR transition: Impact on security and guarantees
Publication | December 02, 2021