Overview
Aya is a managing associate in the structured finance team in London. She advises on a diverse range of financing solutions, with particular expertise in infrastructure and utilities, as well as real estate and mobility assets.
Aya acts for a broad range of corporates, lenders and sponsors, and spent time on secondment to the legal team at Thames Water. Aya spent two years as the first innovation lead for the firm's Global Capital Markets practice, designing and delivering the global practice’s innovation strategy and spearheading the design, testing and refinement of generative AI business cases in the firm.
She has worked in Linklaters’ London, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Tokyo offices, and speaks fluent English and French.
Experience
Select experience includes advising:
- Thames Water on its £20bn balance-sheet re-structuring, equity raise and strategic transformation.
- UK water companies such as Southern Water, Anglian Water, and Thames Water on the full range of their ongoing financing arrangements, including annual EMTN programme updates, bond drawdowns and bank debt financing and refinancing.
- Various banks on the establishments and refinancings of public and private residential mortgage-backed securitisations.
- A leading German digital consumer credit platform provider on its public securitisations.
- A German bank on a range of its private warehouse financings in the mobility space, including cars, motorbikes and scooters.
- A European electricity company on its common debt platform, including EMTN programme updates, the issuance of green bonds and bank financings.
- Manchester Airport Group on its multi-source debt financing.