Jessica Stratford
Counsel (admitted in England & Wales, not admitted in Australia), entitled to practise foreign law only
Perth
Jessica Stratford
Counsel (admitted in England & Wales, not admitted in Australia), entitled to practise foreign law only
Perth
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Jessica is an English law qualified banking and finance lawyer with a wide range of experience advising financiers, sponsors and borrowers on cross-border project finance, corporate finance and leveraged finance transactions.
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Experience highlights
Advising a group of financial institutions as lenders on the financing of Emirates Global Aluminium’s development of a 12 mtpa bauxite mine, rail and port project in Guinea.
Advising Fortescue Metals Group on their syndicated revolving credit facilities.
Advising a global financial institution and the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility on the financing of Kalium Lakes’ Beyondie Sulphate of Potash Project in Western Australia.
Advising Pilbara Minerals on their Nordic project bond issue to raise funding for development of the Pilgangoora lithium project in Western Australia.
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Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- EMR Capital on the financing of its acquisition of the Golden Grove base and precious metals mine in Western Australia and related refinancing.
- Proparco on its mezzanine financing of the 72 MW Krnovo wind farm in Montenegro. The project won the EMEA Finance Project Finance – Best Sustainability Deal in 2016.
- CDC and Norfund on the acquisition of a portfolio of power plants and associated infrastructure in five African jurisdictions (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania). The portfolio includes gas-fired IPPs and a gas-to-power project.
- African Development Bank, Development Bank of Southern Africa, FMO and Proparco on the financing of the 120MW Itezhi-Tezhi hydropower project in Zambia.
- NEXI and a syndicate of commercial banks on the USD1.43bn debt financing of the Az Zour North IWPP, the first independent water and power project in Kuwait. The project won the IFLR Middle East Project Finance Deal of the Year in 2014.
- International Finance Corporation, Standard Bank and OFID on the financing of the 80MW Gulf Energy (Athi River) HFO power project in Kenya.
Pro bono
- Assisting the UNHCR with a research project looking at the international and domestic legal frameworks relating to child protection and their application to child refugees, across a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
