Bracewell has hired a new partner for its finance practice in London.

Oliver Irwin joins the team from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy where he was an associate. He focuses on project finance related to energy and infrastructure projects.

A clear work highlight was his work on the Offshore Cape Three Points project in Ghana.

The firm also recently hired project finance partners Fernando Rodriguez Marin and Nicolai Sarad in New York.

In London, at the end of 2017 the firm also established an energy disputes practice with the arrival of John Gilbert and Damian Watkin.