Henrietta Worthington > Vedder Price > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Vedder Price Offices
4 Coleman Street
LONDON
EC2R 5AR
England
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Henrietta Worthington
Work Department
Finance & Transactions
Position
Solicitor
Career
Ms. Worthington concentrates her practice on providing counsel to borrowers and lenders in domestic and cross-border debt financings. She has experience representing banks, funds and other financial institutions in connection with a broad range of transactions, including sustainable finance, financings of energy and infrastructure projects, export finance, acquisition finance and restructurings. She regularly advises clients on a range of sustainable finance products, typically in emerging market jurisdictions, and works with corporations to improve their ESG profiles and understand the reporting landscape.
Her practice also focuses on international trade compliance, particularly UN, EU and UK sanctions. She advises a broad range of businesses on compliance with relevant sanctions laws, including sectoral sanctions applicable to long term financing transactions. She counsels clients on the complexities of doing business in certain emerging market jurisdictions, helping them to navigate their international sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance obligations.
Additionally, she has advised clients regarding a range of regulatory compliance issues including AML reviews and programmes, anti-bribery policies, and ESG reporting requirements and strategy.
Education
- BPP Law School, L.P.C., 2010, Distinction
- University of Edinburgh, M.A., 2008
Lawyer Rankings
London > Industry focus > Emerging markets
At Vedder Price, ‘the team is extremely efficient and solution-oriented, and quick to adapt to a dynamic environment typical for emerging markets‘. Lead partner Trevor Wood is ‘ very industrious, knowledgeable and able to adapt and provide proper solutions to the unorthodox challenges to provide first-class advice‘. Since joining the firm in 2020, he has broadened the scope of its emerging markets work, and has recently undertaken complex restructurings and asset dispositions in many jurisdictions, among them Lebanon, Bulgaria and Mongolia. The firm’s focus is predominantly on central and Eastern Europe, which necessitates the involvement of its experts in sanctions advice. Associate Henrietta Worthington has a key role in many of the firm’s key transactions, which include assisting EBRD with a €25m loan to Ukraine’s Ukrgasbank.