The team at Clifford Chance is prolific in advising on financial and capital markets transactions in the energy, infrastructure, and industrials spaces, maintaining close relations with leading institutional and direct lenders as well as with major corporate borrowers such as VARO Energy and Traxys. Bolstered by cross-practice corporate and financial regulatory offerings, the group is capable of covering a wide range of debt finance matters, including high-value project financings, acquisition financings, and complexly structured sustainability-linked credit facilities. The expertise of Wim Aerts and Niek De Pauw furthermore allows the team to handle debt and equity capital markets matters, including IPOs and capital increases. De Pauw co-leads the practice with Lounia Czupper, an expert on bank lending and financial regulation. Bert De Maeyer left the team in March 2023.
Testimonials
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‘Very qualified lawyers, with a lot of experience and practical knowledge of the sector. Available,solution oriented, providing useful advice.’
‘Lawyers have a very extensive knowledge of the field and the functioning of the various parties intervening in a transaction, which allows them to provide us with very practical and concrete advice/recommendations.’
Key clients
- Abrdn
- Allianz Real Estate
Work highlights
- Advised VARO Energy on a $1.13bn term loan, including a $165m green loan, a $2.2bn secured multicurrency revolving borrowing base facility, and a $710m ancillary guarantee facility.
- Advised Azelis, a leading global innovation service provider in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry, on a series of capital raising transactions, including its offering of €400m 5.75% senior unsecured notes due 2028 and its €200m capital increase pursuant to the successful placement of new shares via an accelerated bookbuilding.