Norton Rose Makes New Middle East Appointment

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Donald Francoeur joined Norton Rose’s Middle East practice as a banking and projects senior legal counsel. He is based in Riyadh.

Francoeur specializes in project finance, structured finance and debt capital markets, with additional experience in joint ventures and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.


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