Heather is a finance specialist with a sector focus on infrastructure and energy transition.
Heather advises on transactions across a broad range of assets including transport, energy transition, digital infrastructure (fibre, data centres, towers and satellites), healthcare and social infrastructure.
Heather has extensive expertise on financings throughout the capital structure, including senior debt, holdco/midco facilities, private placements, platform financings and fund level financings (including subscription lines and NAV-based leveraged financings). Heather's experience also extends to restructurings.
Heather collaborates closely on infrastructure and energy transactions with sector and M&A specialists around the firm, taking a multidisciplinary approach, which can be of particular importance in the context of matters involving regulated assets in the energy and infrastructure sectors, transport and digital infrastructure assets, which each benefit from applying specialist technical knowledge.
Background
Heather studied law at the University of Manchester and graduated with an LLB (Hons) First Class.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited on new US$1.2 billion multicurrency NAV-based revolving credit facility.
- Sequoia in relation to the senior financing for the acquisition of Esken Renewables by Pioneer Point
- a European infrastructure fund on the holdco financing of a UK water asset
- a confidential bidder in relation to the minority holdco financing supporting its bid for Edison's renewable energy generation assets in Italy
- Bharti Global Limited in relation to certain finance aspects of its acquisition of OneWeb
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