Indira is a highly regarded BVI Banking & Finance lawyer whose career spans over twenty-six years. She started her career at Harneys in the BVI and was part of its inaugural Banking & Finance team formed in 1999. After ten years in the Harneys BVI office, Indira moved to the Harneys London office and was based there for sixteen years, where she led its BVI Banking & Finance practice in the EMEA region.
She has a wide-ranging client base, which includes leading onshore law firms, major international financial institutions, multinational corporations, property investment companies, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, funds, and other corporates, and specialises in all aspects of financing.
Her particular areas of expertise include cross-border structured finance, real estate finance, emerging market debt, structured debt, asset finance (including ship finance), project finance, capital markets, Islamic finance, and acquisition finance transactions. She also has extensive experience in working on high-value property transactions involving BVI companies.
Relevant Experience:
- Acting for the world’s largest export-focused nitrogen fertiliser platform and the largest producer in the Middle East and North Africa, with a combined production capacity of 6.5 million tons of urea and merchant ammonia, on the refinancing of an up to USD 900,000,000 bridge loan facility and the amendment and restatement of a USD 300,000,000 revolving credit facility.
- Acted for Delancey on its £250,000,000 refinancing of Here East, the former Press and Broadcast Centres for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Acting as BVI counsel to the Issuer on the issue of US$500 million 1.875 per cent notes due 2030, issued under the US$5 billion MTN Programme, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the Issuer’s parent.
- Acting as BVI counsel to a BVI Issuer on its issue of US$750 million 2.125 per cent Guaranteed Notes due 2030 and US$250 million 2.500 per cent Guaranteed Notes, issued under its US$4.5 billion MTN Programme, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the Issuer’s Hong Kong parent.
- Advising on US$500 million perpetual subordinated guaranteed capital securities issued by a BVI company and unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by a Hong Kong company.
- Advising a consortium on its sale of a mixed-use commercial property in the City of London to a Hong Kong-based investment holding company for £94.2 million.
- Advising Reynolds Group Holdings Limited and Closure Systems International in connection with the BVI elements of Cerberus Capital Management’s acquisition, through an affiliate, of CSI’s North American, Costa Rican, and Japanese businesses and related facilities from Reynolds Group.
- Advising an investor in energy and utility-related businesses, with investments in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution; renewable energy; energy from waste; gas distribution; and oil transmission, on the establishment of a US$2 billion Medium Term Programme (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) by a BVI Issuer, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by its Hong Kong parent.