Jennifer Charles
Partner London
JENNIFER IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM’S PROJECTS GROUP IN LONDON.
Jennifer specialises in domestic and international project financings with a particular emphasis on renewables projects.
She is primarily focussed on the financing aspects of transactions but her broad experience also encompasses M&A, commercial projects and regulatory matters.
Her sector experience has spanned projects in the energy, power, storage, electric vehicles, water and infrastructure sectors across a range of jurisdictions.
Jennifer has completed a secondment to the project finance team of a major international bank.
- Advising Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group on the sale of its 170 MW onshore windfarm portfolio held by Nordic Renewable Power Holding – consisting of the 80 MW Buheii and 47 MW Tysvaer projects in Norway and the 43 MW Hornamossen project in Sweden –to Vauban Infrastructure Partners.
- Advising a consortium of lenders comprising SMBC, Helaba and NatWest, on the £243m refinancing of a 351 MW portfolio of 28 operating solar PV assets in England and Wales, owned by Foresight Group.
- Advising the institutional investors on an award winning £1.3bn bond to finance the acquisition by PKA and PFA of a 50% stake in the 659 MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm.
- Advising Lloyds Bank, NatWest and Allied Irish Bank acting as lenders on an innovative £230m finance facility granted to Low Carbon to create 1 GW of solar PV capacity.
- Advising a group of lenders on the £350m refinancing of West Burton Energy’s UK Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (“CCGT”) and 49 MW battery storage facility located in Nottinghamshire, UK. This is the largest UK gas generation project in over a decade.