Slaughter and May advised the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company k.s.c., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, in relation to its US$750,000,000 credit facility.

HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, J.P. Morgan Limited, National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K., The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc acted as initial mandated lead arrangers with National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. as agent.

The Law Office of Bader Saud Al Bader and Partners advised on Kuwaiti law matters.

CONTACTS
Financing: Philip Snell (partner), Tim Waterson (associate), Latifah Meghji (associate); Tax: William Watson (partner), James Olsen (associate)