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Mr Mark Nuttall

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Work Department

Capital markets and structured finance.

Position

Mark is a finance partner with a focus on infrastructure and utilities who also leads the firm’s social finance practice and is developing the firm’s blockchain expertise, with an emphasis on smart bonds.

His finance expertise covers public capital markets, including whole-business securitisations, as well as banking and private finance, derivatives and direct financing. Mark has a specific water, energy and regulatory finance practice, and advises many of the largest water and energy companies in the UK, as well as regulated companies across Europe. This included advising National Grid in respect of their £12bn disposal of Cadent, and Thames Water in respect the structuring and implementation of the £4.7bn Thames Tideway Tunnel project. As part of this practice Mark has advised on the majority of headline infrastructure and utilities disposals, acquisitions, financings and re-financings in both the UK and Europe in recent years.

Career

Linklaters trainee solicitor 2001-03, associate 2003-08, managing associate 2008-12, partner 2012 to date.

Languages

English.

Memberships

Law Society.

Mark is a member of xDTM Standard Association, a non-profit consortium of more than 300 companies and government entities formed to generate and manage standards related to Digital transaction management.

Education

Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Leisure

Mark leads Linklaters’ award-winning social finance and pro bono practice, which specialises in social impact bonds, supra-national social financings and innovative ways of raising funds for charities. Mark has led on a number of charity bond programmes, including the Retail Charity Bond which was on the first LSE-listed retail charity bond platform, and also won the American Lawyer award of Global Pro Bono Deal of the Year, 2015.

He has also led on a £20m charity bond for Scope, and advised the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council on the establishment of a Commonwealth-wide environmental projects funding scheme.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Water

(Leading partners)

Mark Nuttall – Linklaters LLP

Linklaters LLP provides advice to a wide range of water sector stakeholders, acting for water companies on regulatory and competition challenges and investors on financing arrangements. Julian Davies and Natura Gracia head the team in tandem, with Davies specialising in M&A and financing in the sector, while Gracia takes the lead on regulation and competition. Mark Nuttall heads the firm’s structured finance team, assisting water companies with both debt and equity raises, working alongside Elisabeth Johnson, who is well versed in setting up infrastructure financing. Emma Crawford provides further financing capacity and is also able to assist with regulatory issues and investigations.

London > Finance > Securitisation

Linklaters LLP has a deep bench of securitisation partners in London, as well as a strong team of associates handling innovative, complex and multi-jurisdictional structures across all asset classes. ‘Its people are exceptionally talented and a pleasure to work with‘, notes one client. Led by Mark Nuttall, the group includes standout practitioners in Adam Fogarty, who handled £1.75bn in issuance under an RMBS master trust programme; mortgage-backed, loan portfolio and covered bonds specialist Andrew Vickery; Alexander Shopov, whose work includes receivables finance and RMBS deals; covered bonds and utility securitisation expert Reza Taylor; Thomas Quoroll, who advised an alternative investment firm on a €1bn portfolio acquisition; and emerging talents Aditi Srivastava and the ‘very dedicated‘ Lucy Sidey. The whole team ‘showcases the ability to deliver complex transactions in a timely and orderly fashion, across public and private financings‘, and clients praise its strong collaboration skills. Mark Drury joined Reed Smith LLP.

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