Fiona Coady

Fiona is a partner in the Banking & Finance group and has extensive experience advising both lenders and borrowers in a range of transactions including leveraged and acquisition finance, receivables and asset based lending, private placements, equity margin loans, venture debt, project and infrastructure finance, and structured finance. Fiona principally acts on cross-border transactions and has extensive restructuring experience.
Most recently Fiona has also been particularly active advising on issues concerning the cessation of LIBOR.

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Karriere

Since 2021	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2019 - 2021	Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2019	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2016	Lawyer, Hunton & Williams
2012 - 2014	Lawyer, Fasken Martineau LLP
2010 - 2012	Consultant, ILFS
2009 - 2010	Project Co-ordinator, GOA, Kenya
2005 - 2009	Lawyer, Allen & Overy LLP
2006	Secondee, Goldman Sachs

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Ausbildung

2007	Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2004	LPC, BPP, Holborn
2003	BA in Jurisprudence, University of Oxford

Expertise

Rechtsgebiete und Gruppen Bank- & Finanzrecht Africa Group

Referenzen

Advising a global asset manager on its $20 million equity margin facility	Advised a leading global asset manager as borrower on its entry into a $20 million equity margin facility.
Advising Digital 9 Infrastructure plc on its £300 million revolving credit facility	Advised Digital 9 as borrower on entry into a debt facility with a syndicate of four international banks including RBS, DNB, Royal Bank of Canada and Banco Santander.
SpectraLegal on its complex GBP100m loan facility agreement	SpectraLegal, the Canadian-backed, UK litigation funder, on a complex and bespoke GBP100m loan facility agreement (with an additional £100m accordion facility) secured predominantly against Spectra's receivables. We also acted on the transfer of loan portfolios within the group and the cancellation and redemption of its two existing senior facilities with a UK bank and U.S. fund respectively.

Phoenix UK on the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt and an equity investment	Acting for Phoenix UK Fund Limited in relation to the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt (originally provided to the Stanley Gibbons Group by a UK bank) and its associated equity investment into Stanley Gibbons plc, the specialist retailer of collectable postage stamps and similar products, and on the purchase of certain assets out of administration.
A joint venture between two large German real estate companies on a EUR83m facility agreement	A joint venture between two large German real estate companies on a EUR83m facility agreement to refinance a portfolio of offices located across the Netherlands.

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