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Summary
Simon Kavanagh is a partner in the International
Finance Group based in London. He qualified as an English lawyer
in 1987 and joined Watson, Farley & Williams as a partner in 1997.
Simon specialises in financing and project transactions, with particular
emphasis on the logistics, shipping and renewables sector, and has wide
experience of many types of financing. He has been involved in a
broad range of structured financings including securitisations, numerous
UK and cross-border tax leases and project financings relating to, among
other things, shipbuilding receivables, container receivables, containers,
container vessels, cruise vessels and other types of vessels, satellites,
windfarms and landfill gas plants.
Recent Experience
- Advising an Australian power developer
on the restructuring of its UK power facilities
- Advising a leading UK private equity house
on the acquisition and leveraged financing of a portfolio of approximately
130 MW of existing and 900 MW of development onshore wind and hydroelectric
assets in Greece
- Advising Energy Developments Limited, an
Australian power developer, on the £60m refinancing of their UK landfill
gas portfolio
- Advising Plambeck Neue Energien AG on a
€102 million bond financing for eight wind farms (owned by separate
partnerships)
totalling 140 MW with investment grade rating (AAA) from Moody’s and
Standard
& Poors. The bond refinanced the existing project finance debt
- Advising the lessees on UK tonnage tax
and cross border leases
- Advising a major liner company on the restructuring
of approximately 20 financings
Education and Qualifications
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1984 - 1985
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Law Society Finals; College of Law,
London
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| 1983 - 1984
| Common Professional Exam; College of Law,
London
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| 1983
| BA Hons; Christchurch, Oxford |
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