Expertise

Maria has experience advising lenders and borrowers on a wide range of financing transactions, including real estate finance, leveraged finance, corporate debt, fund finance and asset-based lending. She also has experience in debt capital markets work such as CLOs and loan note listings. Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, she practiced at a leading offshore law firm in Jersey.

Experience

Maria's experience includes:

  • advising Fletchers Solicitors with the refinancing the acquisition of its Group and various add-on acquisitions by the sponsor Sun Capital Partners.
  • advising Joloda Hydraroll group with the financing of the acquisition of a Finland-based subsidiary.
  • advising a consortium of lenders on the financing of Brookfield Infrastructure's £4 billion take private acquisition of Homeserve plc.
  •  advising African Frontier Capital (Mauritius) LLC on a receivables financing transaction to enable the provision of loans to people living off-grid in Kenya to buy solar home systems and other related solar products.

*Maria worked on some of these transactions prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard.

Education
  • SQE 2 Preparation Course – The University of Law
  • Legal Practice Course – The University of Law
  • LLB (Hons) Law – The University of London, International Programmes
  • MA (Hons) History – The University of Edinburgh