Jonathan is a senior associate in the Project Development & Finance practice. In the infrastructure space, his practice includes acting for sponsors and lenders on a full spectrum of infrastructure financings including acquisitions, refinancings and the establishment of multi-creditor debt platforms. His experience includes both bank and private placement debt provided by a wide variety of European, US, Australian and Asian institutional investors (including insurance companies and pension funds) across a range of assets (including airports, district heating and storage) in a number of jurisdictions. In the project finance space, his practice includes acting for/on transactions involving ECAs (in particular SACE, Hermes, UKEF (where he spent 6 months on secondment), CESCE, JBIC-NEXI, KSURE, KEXIM, EDC and USExim) and DFIs/multilaterals (in particular IFC, MIGA, AFDB, DEG, Proparco, CDC, KDB and DBSA) on a wide range of corporate and project financings and restructurings in various sectors and in various markets around the world (with a particular focus on Africa).

• ECA and lender in relation to a corporate loan to a project in Egypt
• DFIs in relation to the Egyptian FiT program
• ECA and Lender in relation to a corporate loan to a project in South Africa
• ECA and lender in relation to a corporate loan to a Russian bank
• IFI in relation to the financing of an airport in Sub-Saharan Africa
• DFIs in relation to various renewable power plants in Uganda
• The lender in relation to a power plant in Ghana
• The lenders in relation to the refinancing of two airports in FYR Macedonia
• The sponsor in relation to a hydro project in West Africa
• The borrower in relation to an acquisition and refinancing in the Spanish telecoms sector
• The lenders and an ECA on the refinancing of amounts paid by the borrower under two framework agreements in the automotive industry in Turkey
• The lenders and ECA on the financing of a tyre manufacturing plant in Georgia, USA
• The lender on an ECA-backed financing of equipment for a telecom operator in several countries including Bolivia and Sweden
• The lender on a MIGA-backed financing of metro trains for a local authority in Turkey
• The DFIs in respect of a hydro power project in Zambia
• The lenders on a ECA-backed export buyer credit facility for the financing of equipment for a telecom operator in Brazil
• An investor on the acquisition of a substantial portfolio of power assets across sub-Saharan Africa
• The lender on an ECA-backed credit facility to finance the supplies and services for the construction of pumped storage plant in India
• The lender on the refinancing of an extensive real estate portfolio in several European countries