Simmons & Simmons

Corporate.

Isabella is a partner in the corporate group in London. She has experience in a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and public and private fundraisings, including in particular advising funds and asset managers on infrastructure investments. Recent work includes: advising Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec on its £644m acquisition of a 25% interest in the London Array, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, from Dong Energy; advising Veolia Water UK plc on its £1.2bn disposal of its UK regulated water business to Rift Acquisitions, a company formed by the Infracapital and Morgan Stanley infrastructure funds; advising Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited on its US$1.9bn IPO on SWX Swiss Exchange; and advising Telefónica O2 on its £1.9bn disposal of Airwave, the UK’s emergency telecommunications provider, to two Macquarie infrastructure funds; advising CFIG on the co-investment arrangements in relation to KKR’s acquisition of Cambridge and South Staffs Water.

Trained Simmons & Simmons 1997; qualified 1999; partner in the corporate department 2008; two and a half-year secondment in the Abu Dhabi office; returned to London office 2011.

Portuguese.