Fiona Coady

Fiona is a senior counsel in the Banking & Finance group and has extensive experience advising both lenders and borrowers in a range of transactions in the energy, commodities and infrastructure sector with a particular focus on Africa and developing markets.

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Karriere

Since 2019	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 Africa Group

Referenzen

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.