After gaining over 20 years’ experience as a banking and finance lawyer, I have set up my own legal consultancy, with expertise in transactions in developed and emerging markets, development and sustainable finance, trade finance and leveraged and acquisition finance.

After training with Allen & Overy in London and Hong Kong, I qualified in 2003 into the Global Loans & Restructuring team at Allen & Overy. In 2005, I moved to Amsterdam to join Linklaters’ Banking and Finance team, focusing on European leveraged acquisition finance and syndicated lending and advised European banks, European public and private corporations and private equity investors, and learning Dutch to a fluent level.

In 2014 I returned to London to join the legal team of British International Investment plc (formerly CDC Group plc), the UK’s development finance institution. I stayed for 9 years working myself up to Deputy Chief Legal Officer for Corporate and Financial Institutions Debt and advised on a breadth of secured and unsecured emerging markets financings for corporates, banks and microfinance institutions, on a bilateral and syndicated basis with other DFIs and commercial lenders.

I focused on sustainable finance, climate finance and gender lens investing, principally in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, covering early-stage deal structuring, transaction execution and portfolio management. My trade finance experience includes trade loans and de-risking transactions (funded and unfunded participations).

Through consulting, I am keen to continue working in the impact space to use the experience I have gained to support development finance transactions and help financial institutions and businesses operate more sustainably, as well as putting my experience to use in transactions in the UK and beyond.