Clare Brewer > Ashfords LLP > Exeter, England > Lawyer Profile

Ashfords LLP
ASHFORD HOUSE
GRENADIER ROAD
EXETER
EX1 3LH
England

Work Department

Construction & Infrastructure, Banking & Finance.

Position

Partner in the Construction & Infrastructure Team. Clare is a project finance specialist with skills that cover both banking documentation and commercial contracts.

Career

She has been in practice for over 20 years, the first 14 of them in London, mostly with Norton Rose. She is a project finance specialist with skills that cover both banking documentation and commercial contracts, in both a UK and an international context. Clare advises on a broad portfolio of projects, including advising local authorities, contractors and funders on project finance structures and outsourcings in many sectors, from PFI through to waste, accommodation and other infrastructure. She has a particular focus on waste projects and decentralised energy projects, including district heating networks.

Clare works in the following areas: Waste ManagementEnergy InnovationEnergy InfrastructureBanking and Public Sector Outsourcing.

Languages

English.

Lawyer Rankings

South West > Finance > Banking and finance

The varied banking work undertaken by Ashfords LLP includes acquisition finance, project finance and corporate financing; the team’s varied client base ranges from major banks and independent lenders to corporate clients from sectors such as manufacturing, property investment and leisure. Rebecca Dury, whose transactional expertise extends to syndicated and bilateral financings, runs the practice from Exeter. Her colleague Clare Brewer‘s practice encompasses energy and infrastructure finance. In Bristol, ‘positive and proactive’ Ed Hobbs works across a wide range of lending and security work with a particular focus on venture debt. Real estate specialist James Heath extends the unit’s property financing expertise.