Emma Clarke
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, French, Russian
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
As a partner in our Infrastructure, Energy, Resources and Project Finance practice, Emma Clarke focuses on infrastructure finance, PPP and project finance, infrastructure M&A and fund financing transactions, advising primarily on the financing aspects. She brings over 15 years of extensive experience to her clients across sectors as diverse as energy (renewables including wind and waste, as well as gas and electricity), water, transport (roads, rail, ports) and accommodation (health care). She has acted on some of the largest and most complex deals in the international and domestic infrastructure market.
Her clients are drawn from across the spectrum of infrastructure market participants including sponsors and borrowers, commercial banks, multilateral lenders and other financial institutions, and government agencies. She has helped clients solve a range of financing challenges in particular deals involving bank, bond and hybrid financing structures. As well as advising clients on a wide range of financing solutions across the infrastructure, PPP and project finance, and infrastructure M&A space, Emma also has experience of advising parties on on-going finance contract management issues and restructuring / refinancing under-performing and distressed infrastructure debt.
Representative experience
Advising the commercial banks and EIB supporting Macquarie's consortium bids for 9 of the UK's first round Offshore Wind Transmission Opportunities involving debt of £1bn.
Credentials
- M.A. (Hons), University of Edinburgh
- M.Sc., University of Edinburgh