John Anselmi

John Anselmi is a Partner in the Firm’s Banking and Credit Practice. Based in New York, he advises private equity and strategic sponsors, borrowers and lenders on a broad range of project, infrastructure and other corporate financing transactions. He has extensive experience with all stages of project development and financing, including joint venture and shareholder arrangements, multi-source financings, commercial arrangements and expansions. 

He represents clients across a variety of industry sectors including oil and gas, LNG, mining, renewable power, infrastructure, logistics and data centers. He has advised clients on projects in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

John’s experience includes public and private capital markets offerings, secured and unsecured bank financings, commodity prepayment financings, private credit and export credit agency and multilateral lending agency financings. John has also counseled clients in distressed, restructuring and bankruptcy matters.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• The borrower and a consortium of sponsors, including Exxon Mobil Corporation, ENEOS Xplora, Santos Limited and entities related to the State of Papua New Guinea, in connection with the $18 billion project financing of PNG LNG in Papua New Guinea
• Broadcom on its transaction with Anthropic for $21 billion of Google Ironwood TPU chips
• Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. in connection with the refinancing of Oaktree’s preferred shares in TPI Composites, Inc. into common equity and a senior secured term loan and TPI’s chapter 11 bankruptcy
• Goodman North American Partnership in connection with its senior unsecured credit facilities and U.S. private placements (4(a)(2))
• Perth Airport Pty Ltd in connection with its U.S. private placements (4(a)(2))
• Mineral Resources Limited in connection with a $750 million unsecured credit facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and several note issuances pursuant to Rule 144A/Reg. S
• Ascent Resources in connection with various financing and corporate matters, including acquisition financing, reserves-based credit facilities, term loans, the issuance of senior unsecured notes and various recapitalization transactions
• Yemen LNG in negotiating documentation required to reflect the policies and guidelines of the export credit agencies, political risk insurers and commercial banks providing financing to the project and advice on commercial agreements, including environmental and social management plans and long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements
• Moma Titanium Mineral Sands Project (Mozambique), involving debt from regional development banks, export credit agencies and commercial banks
• Ambatovy Nickel Project’s (Madagascar) $2.1 billion financing by multilateral lending agencies, export credit agencies and commercial banks for the first ever project financing in Madagascar
• United Rentals, Inc. in connection with the financing for its acquisitions of RSC Equipment Rental, Inc., National Pump & Compressor Ltd. and NES Rentals Holdings II, Inc., BlueLine Rental, BakerCorp, Neff Corporation, Vander Holding Corporation and General Finance Corporation
• South32 Limited on its debut offering of $700 million senior unsecured notes issued pursuant to Rule 144A/Reg. S

John earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2002 and earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1999. He is admitted to practice in New York.