Sameer Ahmed Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for top-level strategic development and implementation across nPlan functions

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Paris Area, France

Vice President, INSEAD Student CouncilVice President, Women in Business Club. Founder of Manbassadors and local MeForShe chapter.Student Life Representative, Section E03 Louis Franck Scholar

London, United Kingdom

• Focussed on renewable energy projects, managing large teams with responsibility for drafting and negotiating key deal documentation on behalf of clients. Highlights include:
• Lead associate on financing of GBP1.6bn Race Bank wind farm, representing multi-bank syndicate and managing a large internal team. Successful close in December 2016.
• Represented Sponsors on whole business securitisations for two EU National Utilities with various creditors (bond, bank, sub-debt); restructuring improved S&P debt rating and led to pass-through consumer cost reductions.
• Department representative on Westminster Energy Forum, a private industry body of 150+ organisations evaluating design/ delivery of UK energy policy.

London

Greater New York City Area

• Chosen to join the New York Office on secondment by the Global Project Finance Partnership, leading the associate team in that office on clean energy and other projects in North and South America. Highlights include:
• Led construction and financing of Talas de Maciel wind farm in Uruguay; among first-in-country project designed to deliver on Government mandate to reduce reliance on imported oil; worked closely with Uruguayan lawyers.
• Post-build and operational work for Samsung with respect to Kelar Power Plant in Chile.
• Developed pitches to a Middle Eastern state-owned fund looking to buy energy assets in North America. Won mandate as US legal counsel following pitches.

Moorgate, London

• I qualified as a solicitor in the Energy and Infrastructure department at Linklaters LLP, with a focus on project finance. I worked primarily on international energy and infrastructure projects, with experience across.
• Advising an international sponsor consortium on the procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of a Port Project in Africa. Key role in negotiating directly with the Government, primary responsibility for.
• Advising a syndicate of Lenders on a part-bond, part-debt financed refinancing. Key role in streamlining negotiating and closing process, acted as primary contact to all Lenders on a bilateral basis.
• Advising a large syndicate of local and international Lenders in respect of the project financing of a port in Turkey. Primary role in reviewing project and security documents and liaising with local counsel in.
• Advising Lenders in relation to the multi source financing (a mix of ECA, international and local lender debt) of two solar projects in South Africa. Primary role in negotiating the Finance Documents with local counsel.
• Advising Lenders on four commodity-backed borrowing base financings for a multinational commodity trading corporation. Primary role in drafting finance and security documents, negotiating with Borrower counsel.

Moorgate, London

Six months' experience in each of the following departments:1. Derivatives and Structured Products;2. Energy and Infrastructure; 3. Litigation (including arbitration); and4. Finance and Banking.

Canary Wharf, London

Summer Intern within the domestic high net worth team at Barclays Wealth. My role involved understanding, selecting and explaining suitable financial and investment products, as well as financial and new client research.

Moorgate, London

London, United Kingdom

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Vice President, INSEAD Student Council. Vice President, INSEAD Women in Business. Co-founder of Manbassadors.

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Law, Upper 2.1

Activities and Societies: Social Secretary, Rosebery Halls 1st XI Hockey

Legal Practice Course, Law

Education record

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General