OVERVIEW
Vanessa is of counsel of Maples and Calder's Banking and Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Vanessa has extensive experience advising a broad spectrum of lenders (Irish and International financial institutions, alternative lenders) and borrowers (trading companies, SPVs, funds, partnerships) on a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions including real estate investment and development finance, funds finance (including subscription line financing), corporate debt, leveraged and acquisition finance, refinancings and restructurings.
BACKGROUND
Vanessa joined the Maples Group in 2016. Prior to this, she spent six years working off-shore, most recently in Guernsey at Bedell Cristin, and in the British Virgin Islands. Vanessa won the Euromoney Women in Business Law EMEA Finance Rising Star award in 2021. Vanessa was ranked as a 'Rising Star' in The Legal 500's EMEA 2020 and 2021 Guides. Clients praise Vanessa for her "professional and practical manner" and recognise her as being "very competent, knowledgeable, efficient and decisive". IFLR 2020/2021 also ranked Vanessa as a 'Rising Star'.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Law Society of Ireland
Member of 100 Women in Finance
Member of the Women in Fund Finance Committee (Europe)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Banking
Fund Finance
Real Estate Finance
Acquisition & Leveraged Financing
bar admissions
2010 - Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland2011 - Admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland (not practising)
2011 - Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) (not practising)
2014 - Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
EDUCATION
Dublin Business School, Eire, BA (Hons), Business and Tourism Studies, 2001Law Society of Ireland, Eire, Certificate in English and Welsh Property Law, 2014
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