Jonathan Toffolo
Biography
Overview
Jonathan is an associate in the European infrastructure debt practice at White & Case. Jonathan specialises in infrastructure acquisition financings and refinancings, acting for both infrastructure sponsors and finance providers.
Prior to joining the firm, Jonathan worked in Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance practices at two City law firms.
London
Experience
Representation of VTTI, a global leader in independent energy that now develops the critical energy infrastructure needed to move towards a carbon neutral future, on its US$1.7 billion refinancing.
Representation of GETEC, a leading partner for smart, efficient and sustainable energy infrastructure solutions to the industrial and real estate sectors in Europe, on its €3.1 billion refinancing under common terms investment-grade platform with longer and diversified tenors, offering GETEC a flexible structure to support its expansion in both existing and new markets.
Representation of existing and incoming funders in connection with the €2.6 billion refinancing of Ventient Energy, Europe's largest operator of onshore wind farms, including establishment of a new multi-creditor common terms platform.
Representation of Highview Power, a long-duration energy storage pioneer with proprietary cryogenic energy storage technology, on a £300 million combined debt and equity investment for the first in its pipeline of commercial-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plants in the UK.
Representation of funders to a joint venture of DWS and MEAG on their acquisition of Weltec, a German biogas business.
Representation of Farnborough Airport on its refinancing (having also previously acted on the acquisition of Farnborough Airport by MEIF 6).
Representation of Bristol Airport on the refinancing of its bank facilities (having also previously acted for Bristol Airport on its most recent private placement note issuance).
Representation of the funders to GIP in relation to a junior financing for a bid by New Suez for the acquisition from Veolia Environment of Suez's waste and water business assets in the UK.
Representation of funders to DigitalBridge and Brookfield Asset Management on the financing for €18 billion acquisition of a majority stake in GD Towers that owns 33,600 telecoms towers and rooftops in Germany, and a further 7,000 sites in Austria.
Representation of the funders on the Värmevärden and Adven refinancing including a platform and bank and PP debt.*
*Experience prior to joining White & Case
