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Jacqueline Bell

Jacqueline Bell

Dentons, Netherlands

Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Jacqueline is a partner in the global Banking and Finance practice and is co-head of the Europe Transportation and Infrastructure Sector, with a growing specialist focus on development finance and blended finance. Jacqueline joined the partnership at Dentons from a position as a successful freelancer, where her work involved the first commercial aviation financing in Myanmar, a reforestation project in Rwanda and Uganda, and the supply chain financing of a cooperative of rice farmers in Cambodia. Since joining Dentons, Jacqueline’s sustainable finance practice has expanded into renewables, including several secured solar and wind project financings. Jacqueline is currently working on the financing of the construction of solar mini-grids on a collection of petrol stations across multiple jurisdictions in Africa.

Jacqueline has extensive in-house experience spent at the Dutch development bank FMO, at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. where she implemented the bank’s credit risk insurance programme, and as general counsel to an investment fund.

Due to Jacqueline’s work in the emerging markets, Jacqueline is recognised by Chambers Global 2022 as being a Banking & Finance Foreign Expert - UK.

Languages

Jacqueline serves clients in English, Dutch and French.

Education

Nottingham Law School, 2005, Legal Practice Course

Nottingham Law School, 2004, Graduate Diploma in Law

University of Edinburgh, 2003, LLB

Université Aix-Marseille III (Aix-en-Provence) , 2002, Master

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