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Koen de Wit
Biography
Koen advises on a wide range of project and real estate financings across the globe, focusing on energy (transition), decarbonisation and sustainability.
He has worked with a variety of sponsors, borrowers, lenders, multilateral development banks and export credit agencies.
Practice areas
- Project development and finance
Selected experience
- The commercial lenders, EIB and export credit agencies on the EUR2bn project financing of the Gemini wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. This transaction involved the amendment to a senior multi-tranche staple financing package provided by 25+ institutions globally.
- Sunrock on the EUR225m portfolio financing of its rooftop solar projects in the Netherlands. The innovative portfolio structure enables Sunrock to grow its business effectively and efficiently.
- EdgeConneX on its EUR2.4bn sustainability-linked financing of its pan-EMEA data centre portfolio. This represents Europe’s first data centre platform financing project.
- A group of financial institutions on the EUR 125m real estate development financing to Greystar for the acquisition and development of The Ensemble in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Sloe Centrale on the sale of the gas-fired power plant by PZEM and EDF to EPH.
- DIF Capital Partners on its sale of a portfolio of European PPP assets to Equitix.
- A group of financial institutions on the EUR110m financing of GlasDraad’s optical fiber networks business in the Netherlands.
- EIB on a EUR16m venture debt financing provided to Airborne International, a manufacturer of composites.
- The senior lenders on the project financing of Windpark Fryslân in the Netherlands. This project is the largest inland water wind farm.
- The senior lenders and JBIC on the refinancing of offshore wind project Luchterduinen in the Netherlands.
Education
- LLM, European law, Leiden University, 2015
- LLM, Administrative law, Leiden University, 2015
Admissions
- The Netherlands, 2016
- Listed in the register of legal practice areas of the Dutch Bar Association for Financieel recht
Languages
- Dutch
- English
