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Nick Jones Corporate Lawyer
Nicholas Jones
Special Counsel

Overview

Nicholas Jones is an English law qualified lawyer advising clients in international finance transactions and projects in jurisdictions across the world. Nicholas has extensive experience working on a wide range of cross-border financing transactions, including syndicated and bilateral lending, acquisition finance, real estate finance, export credit finance and project finance. Nicholas also has experience advising on corporate transactions and restructurings. He represents both lenders and borrowers across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure.

Before joining Baker Botts in February 2018, Nicholas was an associate at another international law firm in London.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • Qualified Solicitor, England and Wales, 2013
  • Legal Practice Course, City University, London 2010
  • Bachelor of Laws, Jurisprudence, Oxford University 2008

Experience

  • Formula One - $1.7 billion Term Loan B, $725 million Term Loan A and $500 million revolving credit facility
  • Sponsors - £75 million project financing for a battery storage facility in the United Kingdom
  • International Financial Institution - $50 million convertible loan financing (including Dollar and Soum-linked loans) to a state owned bank in Uzbekistan in connection with its privatization
  • International Financial Institution - €245 million loan (including a Turkish Lira-linked loan and syndicated B Loan) for one of the largest glass manufacturers in Türkiye
  • International Financial Institution - $120 million syndicated financing for the leasing subsidiary of a major Turkish bank
  • International Financial Institution - $100 million financing to a bank in Türkiye
  • International Financial Institution - $110 million financing for a major Turkish manufacturing group
  • Borrower - $80 million borrowing base facility for a US chemicals group servicing the oil and gas industry
  • Sponsor - project financing for a petrochemicals plant in the Leningrad Region, Russia
  • Bristow Group - $80 million asset based lending facility agreement (including advising on amendments thereto in connection with a restructuring of the group)
  • International Financial Institution - $75 million convertible loan financing to a state owned bank in Uzbekistan in connection with its privatization
  • International Financial Institutions - $120 million project financing for the creation of a farming enterprise and associated infrastructure in Uzbekistan
  • International Financial Institutions - $35 million project financing for the modernization and operation of a phosphate plant in Uzbekistan
  • International Financial Institution - $35 million Uzbekistan Soum-linked convertible loan to a bank in Uzbekistan in connection with its privatization
  • International Financial Institution - $30 million convertible loan to a bank in Ukraine in connection with its privatization
  • Sponsor - project financing of an onshore LNG liquification and storage plant to be constructed and operated in East Africa
  • Oil and gas group - financing for the acquisition of an oil and gas ventures in Brazil and South Africa and the restructuring of certain existing subsidiaries
  • Lender - $150 million facility agreement and RUB 15 billion facility agreement for a Russian property group in relation to commercial property in Moscow
  • Oil and Gas field services group - $4.65 billion financing consisting of a $2.26 billion senior secured term loan facility, a $1.0 billion senior secured revolving credit facility and a $1.39 billion senior secured letter of credit facility
  • Oil and Gas field services group - $1.7 billion superpriority secured credit facility, $2.8 billion debtor-in-possession facility and an exit financing consisting of $2.44 billion in letter of credit capacity and $544 million of term loan debt on emergence from Chapter 11
  • Russian Bank – guarantee issuance facility for a Turkish construction group
  • Major Russian airline -advice in connection with the leasing and financing arrangements of a number of aircraft
  • Borrower - $35 million borrowing base facility for a US technology group
  • Liberty Group - $120 million sale of telecommunications group in the Seychelles
  • International Financial Institution - $100 million financing to a bank in Türkiye
  • Lender - financing with an equity kicker for an international oil and gas group
  • Major Russian energy company - advice in connection with the part sale of a participation in a Russian LNG project
  • Lender - $175 million financing of the acquisition of a shopping and business centre in Russia
  • UK Renewable Energy Company - equipment financing
  • International Financial Institution - financing for a Central American transport group
  • Lender - €110 million financing of the acquisition of real estate in Russia and additional facility increases for further acquisitions
  • Lenders - €40 million re-financing of facilities for the acquisition of real estate in the Rostov region, Russia
  • Russian bank - partial equity sale of a Russian IT company effected through a loan structure
  • International Financial Institution - project financing for a packaging company in Ukraine and Latvia
  • UK Renewable Technology Company - advised on an equity raise during a restructuring process
  • Credit fund - €75 million real estate financing for holiday park group in the Netherlands*
  • Lenders - $250 million powership financing in Indonesia*
  • A syndicate of lenders - $1 billion project finance facility for the development of a passenger port in Istanbul*
  • International Financial Institutions - $75 million port financing project in Ukraine*
  • Lender - project financing for a wind farm in Türkiye*
  • Lenders - acquisition financing of a multinational telecommunications group*
  • Credit fund - financing for an oil company in Ghana*
  • Lenders - export credit financings for search and rescue equipment delivered to the Republic of Angola*
  • Lenders - restructuring of an export credit facility for an offshore North Sea oil and gas group *
  • Lenders - IPO financing for a UK haulage business*
  • Lenders - $120 million acquisition financing of a shipping business*
  • Lenders - $450 million secured facility agreement for a major chemicals company*
  • Lenders - $300 million pre-export credit facility agreement for an agricultural group*
  • Export credit agency - the financing for a stadium in Cameroon*
  • Lenders - €295 million acquisition financing of a corporate services group*
  • Sponsor - £400 million public bid for and subsequent privatisation of a UK telecommunications group*
  • Lenders - acquisition financing of a pharmaceutical group*
  • Lenders - acquisition financing of a multi-national education group*
  • Syndicate of lenders - $600 million facility agreement for a major Russian energy group*
  • Lenders - borrowing base facility for a mining group*
  • Syndicate of lenders - a $100 million facility agreement for a manufacturing group*

*Prior to Joining Baker Botts



Awards and Community

Recognized as a "Rising Star" in Finance: Emerging Markets by The Legal 500 UK, 2019-2025