Katie Duffield

Infrastructure:

• Institutional investor noteholders, including Aviva and Sun Life, in relation to financings of rolling stock for the West Coast Partnership rail franchise and the East Midlands rail franchise.
• Société Générale as agent in connection with major capacity upgrade works and amendments to the C$1.8bn Canada Line light rail project between Vancouver, its airport and Richmond in British Columbia, Canada.
• Senior Creditors, including Aviva, LGIM, Scottish Widows, MetLife, MEAG, Rothesay, Barings, Mass Mutual and Aberdeen Standard in relation to the financing of rolling stock for the South Western rail franchise
• Institutional investor noteholders, including Aviva, LGIM and Aberdeen Standard, and EIB in relation to the financing of rolling stock for the East Anglia rail franchise.
• Aviva in relation to long term fixed rate financing of rolling stock to be run on the Moorgate branch of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise.
• Aviva and EIB, in relation to the £300m financing of the Dumfries & Galloway Acute Services Redevelopment Project.
• Laing O’Rourke on the Yorkshire Batch Priority Schools Building Programme PF2 financed and secured through the “aggregator vehicle” model.
• The Intercreditor Agent, the monoline insurer in respect of the project bonds and RPI swaps and other lenders to NATS Limited in relation to the National Air Traffic Services Project on an ongoing basis since 2005.
• Aviva in relation to investments in ITS Technology Group, County Broadband and Truespeed Communications to fund the roll out of ultrafast fibre-optic infrastructure networks across the UK.
• Aspire Defence Limited as the project company in relation to various amendments, variations and consents required in connection with the project financing for the MOD Allenby & Connaught accommodation and associated support services project.

Energy:

• Advising a renewable energy fund in relation to the portfolio financing of its operational solar assets.
• AIB, IFM and Aviva in relation to financing of a portfolio of anaerobic digestion plants for Pretoria Energy.
• National Grid in relation to financing, security and support arrangements in connection with transmission link and electricity interconnector projects.
• BP in relation to financing, security and support arrangements in connection with disposals of North Sea assets.
• The lenders to and investors in Aldwych International, a specialised developer of power projects in Africa, on the restructuring of its debt facilities

Corporate Finance:

• Hunting plc, Savills plc and various other borrower clients in relation to their group working capital facilities often involving guarantee and fx facilities, overdraft facilities and bonding lines.