IERP Banking Senior Associate

Utilities

• NWF on the £2.4bn Neuconnect energy interconnector project between UK and Germany.
• Affinity Water on its award winning £130m first UK sustainability linked bond issuance.
• Brookfield Infrastructure on its £1bn common debt platform to fund its last mile fibre, electricity and gas business.
• Calisen on its bid to provide water metering services to a UK utility and the debt finance required to fund it.
• EIB on the €4.8bn financing of Thames tideway Tunnel project.

UK Government and BEIS

• UK HMT on its loan to Ukraine as part of the G7-wide Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration Loans initiative using sanctioned Russian assets to support Ukrainian military efforts.
• NWF in connection with development of guarantee and credit enhancement products to be employed in blended finance solutions to enable various innovative climate change related projects to be brought to market.
• The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on a £1bn Guarantee structure to support climate resilience and adaptability related project loans for at-risk communities in Africa.

Digital and Telecoms

• Lenders and sponsors to telecoms companies and infrastructure funds on the financing of modernising state-of-the-art digital, telecoms and satellite infrastructure, including fibre-to-the-home / premises roll-outs across the UK as part of the Liberty Global / Virgin Media O2 fibre roll out.
• The Fibrus fibre business in Northern Ireland.
• Kacific Broadband Satellite, a large multi-jurisdictional satellite project.
• Vauban Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of altnet Trooli.
• Lenders and sponsors to a number of mobile telecoms financings in Africa.
• Lenders to Macquarie Capital on the acquisition financing and roll out of 1.1m unit fibre-to-the-home network in Spain.

Transport

• Lenders to a consortium bidding for the €5bn Dublin Metrolink DBFM project.
• The Department for Transport on the Intercity Express Programme (the procurement and financing of the £3.2bn East Coast, £3bn Great Western rolling stock projects.
• PD Ports, the UK's second largest port operator on its £750m financing.
• RAPT Développement SA in connection with the disposal of part of its bus operating franchise business in London.
• Lenders to a Macquarie Capital led consortium on the Czech D4 Motorway project.
• Cross London Trains on all aspects of the £3.5bn Thameslink rolling stock project.
• A European parts services operator and the open road maintenance contract on refinancing their bank facilities.

Infra and Energy M&A

• SOCAR on finance matters in relation to its stake in an Israeli offshore energy platform.
• Lenders to Equitix on the c.£500m acquisition and roll-out of smart meters across the UK and Europe.
• Creditors on Igneo’s acquisition financing for 100% of Italy’s City Green Light, providing 1m lighting points, LED upgrades and smart city solutions to reduce energy consumption.
• Stonepeak on its €730m acquisition financing for a stake in Cellnex Nordics, the Swedish and Danish telecoms operators.
• IFM on its acquisition financing for Briggs, the leading UK and Irish provider of specialist industrial rental equipment.
• Lenders to Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund on the acquisition of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports.

Project Finance

• Merkur Offshore Gmbh on the project financing of the €1.6bn Merkur offshore wind farm.
• Commercial banks, ECAs and institutional lenders on the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel DBFM project in London.
• Baltic power on the €4.4bn financing of the Baltic Power offshore wind project in Poland.
• Covanta Energy, Green Investment Group and Veolia on the project financing of a major UK merchant energy-from-waste facility.
• IFC, DFC, FMO and certain other lenders on the project financing of ContourGlobal Hydro Cascade CJSC’s Vorotan Hydroelectric Facility in Armenia.
• Metito Utilities Limited on the project financing of a wastewater project in Namangan, Uzbekistan.

Infrastructure and private equity fund financing

• Advising many of the market's biggest infrastructure fund players on their raising of debt and fund finance facilities to help fund their project bids and operations, to fund acquisitions and bridge equity capital raisings.

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Key Responsibilities

• Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Technical Ability

• Possesses good working knowledge and understanding of the legal principles associated with the scope of work outlined above; proactively develops this knowledge further.
• Ability to lead transactions, as appropriate and depending on their complexity, reporting directly to the supervising partner.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Shows awareness of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.
• Good attention to detail and focus on accuracy.

Team Work and Interpersonal Skills

• Motivated, reliable and flexible.
• Resilient and able to perform effectively under pressure with good time management skills (e.g. meets deadlines and responds to requests in a highly timely manner).
• Has an appreciation of when to seek advice and guidance.
• Takes responsibility for project issues (i.e., “owns” the problem, seeks to understand assigned tasks, follows through).
• Strong interpersonal skills (internal and client facing), both written and oral.
• Ability to work effectively with others in a team.
• Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Demonstrates financial awareness – attention to budgets and costs and timely completion of time recording.
• Uses appropriate level of effort for the task (e.g., performs the appropriate amount of research based on partner and matter needs); works