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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Helen is a partner in the firm's Finance practice in London. She advises sponsors, arrangers, lenders, and issuers on a broad range of infrastructure finance, whole business securitisation, and capital markets transactions across the infrastructure, transport, and essential services sectors.
Helen Jones regularly acts on complex financings of regulated and unregulated business in the infrastructure sector. Helen's practice encompasses both the establishment of new financing structures and the restructuring or refinancing of existing financings structures, and she is recognised for her ability to navigate the regulatory, intercreditor, and rating agency considerations that underpin these transactions.
In the capital markets sphere, Helen has particular experience in the infrastructure debt capital markets, where she acts for issuers and underwriters on investment grade public bonds and privately placed infrastructure notes. Her clients include major infrastructure funds, utilities, transport operators, and financial institutions active in the UK and European markets. She also regularly advises lenders and bondholders on consent, waiver, and amendment processes for existing infrastructure financings.
- Heathrow Airport | Lead Partner | Advising the lenders, dealers and investors in relation to the common terms financing platform for Heathrow, including the banking facilities, investment grade public bond issuances and private placed notes.
- Associated British Ports | Lead Partner | Advising the lenders and dealers in relation to the common terms financing platform for ABP, including the banking facilities, the investment grade public bond issuances and liability management exercises.
- The AA | Lead Partner | Advising the lenders and dealers in relation to the common terms financing platform for The AA, including the banking facilities, the investment grade public bond issuances and liability management exercises.
- AGS Airports | Lead Partner | Advising the lenders and institutional investors in relation to the establishment of a common terms financing platform for AGS Airports and the £700m bank and USPP financings.
- Leeds Bradford Airport | Lead Partner | Advising Leeds Bradford Airport in relation to its financings entered into to fund the expansion and refurbishment of the airport terminal.
- Ares Infrastructure Debt | Lead Partner | Advising Ares as lender in relation to a note issuance to fund the acquisition of a minority interest in 2iAeroporti by Asterion Partners.
- SIS consortium(comprised of Sacyr and Fininc) | Partner | Advising on the issuance of a €518 million bond to finance the concession of the A3 motorway in Italy.
- Hippocrates Holdings | Partner | Advising an Italian pharmacy group backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners on its €980 million English law platform financing.
- A UK Bank and The National Wealth Fund | Lead Partner | Advising Natwest and The National Wealth Fund as lenders and NWF as guarantor, in relation to the £250m covered and uncovered facilities agreement for financing the fibre rollout by Quickline Communications.
- Equitix and the other selling shareholders | Partner | Advising Equitix and the other selling shareholders in relation to the financing aspects of the sale of Electricity North West.
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