Tom Longmuir

Tom Longmuir leads a cross-cutting emerging markets finance practice focused on development and impact finance. Complex "first-in-kind" and "largest-in-kind" financings throughout the SSA, MENAT and CEE/CIS regions are key themes of this practice, alongside private capital mobilisation. Tom’s practice has a particular emphasis on blended financings that create additionality and support the Sustainable Development Goals.

He has acted on and led many of the most significant multilateral credit-supported financings throughout Africa – including with the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, Africa Finance Corporation, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association – in a variety of transactions from bank debt through to bonds, derivatives and long-term power purchase agreements. Many of these financings are designed to support national Sustainable Frameworks and/or are sustainability-aligned. He also acted on the inaugural Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank partial debt guarantee in Türkiye, for green and social infrastructure projects.

Tom has led and acted on many of the largest ECA-backed infrastructure financings throughout EMEA, from logistics/transportation, motorways, high-speed rail and defence through to social infrastructure projects including clean water, healthcare and education, working with Atradius, Bpifrance Assurance Export, CESCE, EIFO, EKN, Euler Hermes, SACE, UK Export Finance and US EXIM amongst others.

Tom acted for MIGA on the establishment of their inaugural trade finance guarantee programme as part of the World Bank Group Guarantees Platform. He has advised on development financings supported by multilateral treaty insurers including ATIDI and ICIEC as well as private credit and political risk insurers.

Tom also advises on trade and structured commodity financings of all varieties, including borrowing base financings, receivables purchase and discounting arrangements, as well as structured prepayment and pre-export financings across a variety of sectors (including critical minerals).

Tom is ranked in Chambers and Partners for Projects & Energy: International, named as a Leading Partner for Project Finance by Legal 500, and recognised as a Notable Practitioner by IFLR1000 for Banking and Project Finance. 

Chambers Global describes Tom as "outstanding", "technically gifted, practical and with a great sense of humour" and "very knowledgeable and commercial". Legal 500 commends him "in particular for his strong negotiation skills" and as "an excellent dealmaker", noting that the team he leads is "very solid and a trusted adviser". 

Tom co-leads the firm's Africa practice as a member of the Africa Executive.