Kristina Buckberry
Associate London
Kristina is an associate in the Financial Markets & Products group.
Kristina specialises in structured finance and derivative transactions within the firm’s energy, infrastructure and transport sectors.
This includes European and wider international wind and solar, particularly with respect to finance-linked and other structured derivative products, including interest rate, currency, inflation and commodity derivatives. Kristina has advised various investment banks, institutional investors, sponsors and major international corporates across the firm’s sectors.
Kristina also has experience working on international multijurisdictional project finance across our London, Singapore, Dubai, Hamburg, Athens and Madrid offices.
- Advising the lenders to DIF Capital Partners, via its DIF Infrastructure VII fund, on the financing of a 540 MW portfolio of co-located UK solar generation and battery storage assets comprising seven ready-to-build sites.
- Advising ABN AMBRO and Commerzbank, on English law aspects of a €372m loan granted to Solaria for the long-term financing of a 736 MW Spanish solar PV portfolio.
- Advising lenders on English law aspects of a financing of BASF’s stake in the Hollandse Kust Zuid (“HKZ”), which will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
- Advising lenders on the hedging aspects for an innovative £230m finance facility granted to Low Carbon to create 1 GW of solar PV capacity.
Education
- 2021 – 2022 · Solicitors Qualifying Examination
- 2015 – 2018 · University of Southampton, LLB
memberships and associations
- Law Society of England and Wales
- PressWFW advises lenders on US$650m debt refinancing to Ratio Energies
- PressWFW advises lenders on BESS project financing for Eku Energy
- PressWFW advises Invenergy on greenfield onshore wind project financing
- PressWFW advises lenders on £180m BESS portfolio debt financing
- PressWFW advises Nord L/B and AIB on onshore wind portfolio financing
