Mr. Shaikh represents U.S. and foreign sponsors, lenders, government agencies, contractors and other participants in the development, financing, acquisition, sale, or restructuring of energy and infrastructure projects. He has advised on projects in the oil and gas, power, petrochemical, steel, paper, telecom, sports arena, hotel, real estate and other industries in the U.S., and over 25 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe. These projects have often involved foreign governments, mulitlaterals and Export Credit Agencies. Mr. Shaikh has led pioneering projects, such as the World Bank's first Prototype Carbon Fund investment implementing the Kyoto Protocol, preparing the model contract for future emissions credits generating projects. He also has worked with other multilateral institutions.

Mr. Shaikh has served as lead counsel to sponsors such as Duke Energy, PSE&G and Mitsui in the development, construction and financing of projects. These projects have varied in size (from US$50 million to US$4 billion), and employed a broad range of technologies. He recently served as counsel to a Middle East government in the establishment of a new IPP industry, preparing the framework and model agreements for multiple projects. He has represented contractors in large-scale EPC contracts, including a US$1 billion+ project for a coal-fired facility selected as 2006 Power Project of the Year. Mr. Shaikh has also represented lenders in several project financings and restructurings.

He is experienced in banking, securities, derivatives, and general corporate matters. Mr. Shaikh serves as co-leader of the firm’s South Asia practice team, and the firm’s Iraq Reconstruction team. He has substantial on-the-ground experience in several parts of Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. He has published and presented extensively on international transactions and foreign affairs topics.

Mr. Shaikh was formerly an investment banking Associate in the Derivative Products Group of Bankers Trust, and an Analyst in the Fixed Income Division of Goldman Sachs.

Affiliations

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE); Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA); Yale Alumni Committee; Council on Foreign Relations (Corporate Member)

Notable Pro Bono/Community Affairs: Chief Counsel to a successful 1997 ballot initiative in California that changed state education policy; Research for Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal

Courts

The Honorable William C. Conner, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1992-93)

Intern: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (1992 Honors Program)

Board of Directors: Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund(AALDEF)

Business Advisory Committee:  American Council on Germany (ACG)

Board of Advisors: National South Asian Bar Association (NASABA)

New York Bar Association Committees: Project Finance (present); Council on International Affairs (2001-2006)

Selected Publications

“International Project Finance” in PLIz’s International Corporate Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success; C. Basri editor, 2008

“The New Iraq Banking Law–Summary of Key Provisions,” October 27, 2003

“Guide to Key Sources of Risk Mitigation in International Project Finance” March 2000

“Private Sector Participation in Airports: 3 case studies” AirFinance Journal, Spring 1999

“A Theoretic Approach to Transnational Terrorism” 80 Geo. L.J. 2131-74, 1992

Speaking Engagements

Gulf Investment Forum, Fall 2007–Project Finance and Islamic Finance

Several Major Iraq Reconstruction Conferences, July 2003–2005, including:

• Outreach 2004, Amman, Jordan (1,200 attendees): “Iraq’s Legal Environment”
• Association of Corporate Counsel of America, 2003: “Banking & Finance Reform”
• New Fields Iraq Conferences, 2003-2005: “Contracting for Reconstruction”
• Presenter at 5 additional Iraq Reconstruction Conferences, 2003-2005

NASABA Annual Conference, 2005 “Doing Business in South Asia”

Infocast Project Finance Conferences, 1999-2003 “Negotiating Key Project Documents”

South Asian Bar Association Conference, 2001 Keynote Address

American Council on Germany, Young Leaders Conference, 2001 “The Finality of Europe: Following Fischer into a European Supra-State”

The Indus Entrepreneurs Conference, 2000 Moderator

Asian-American Bar Association, 2000 “Key Lessons of the Asian Financial Crisis”

Asian-American Leaders Summit, 2000 Speaker

U.S. AID, Conference on South Asia Panelist

Constitutional Rights Foundation Banquet Speaker

Occasional news and television commentator (New York Times, ABC, others)

Featured Articles

Featured in the New York Law Journal Article Learning the Ropes in a Global Economy July 20, 2001, covering Mr. Shaikh’s selection as a 2001 Young Leader.

Also featured in numerous South Asian publications.

Honors

2006 & 2007 “New York Super Lawyer” Law & Politics Survey

2001 Young Leader—American Council on Germany (1 of 25 Americans selected)

Leadership Award—Asian American Bar Association, NY

John M. Olin Law & Economics Scholar

Rotary International Award

Firm Publications

Reconstruction of Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority Issues Order Number 40 Adopting New Banking Law Modeled on Western Bank Regulatory Approach, 07-Nov-2003

External Publications

“International Project Finance”, in PLI’s International Corporate Practice—A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success, PLI Corporate and Securities Law Library, 2008