Bram Bulter

Bram Bulter

Managing Associate, Amsterdam

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Bram is a Managing Associate in the Banking and Energy & Infrastructure practice in the Linklaters Amsterdam office. Bram acts for Dutch and international financial institutions, funds and corporates on a wide range of finance transactions. Special areas of expertise include project finance, sustainable finance, corporate finance and acquisition/leveraged finance.

Work highlights
  • Infracapital Partners IV SCSp: advising on the acquisition, financing and carve-out of Vopak Rotterdam Botlek from Vopak Management Netherlands B.V., an indirect subsidiary of Koninklijke Vopak N.V.
  • Digital Colony: advising on a financing for its portfolio company Wildstone in the UK.

  • Project financing for the construction and expansion of data centres in Africa: advising Proparco and EAIF as lenders on the sustainability-linked financingof the construction and expansion of data centres in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Banque Societe Generale S.A., Paris and Kommunalkredit Austria AG: advising on the €150m innovative debt financing arrangement made available to the Allego group, the first-of-a-kind financing in an infrastructure asset class of the future.

  • Glennmont Partners Limited: advising on its proposed acquisition including project financing of 50% in the offshore wind farm Gode Wind 3 from Ørsted.

  • Lenders: advising a consortium of banks as lenders on new lending facilities in connection with the acquisition of a Dutch leading energy-from-waste operator.

  • Project Hai Long: advising Northland Power Inc. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd as joint developers, and the Hai Long project companies, on the TWD 117bn project financing of the 1,022MW Hai Long offshore wind farm project in Taiwan.

  • Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. : acting for the lenders on the new sustainability-linked €1.25bn revolving credit facility for this global supplier of dairy products headquartered in the Netherlands.

  • Heineken N.V.: advising a consortium of international banks as lenders on the Dutch multinational brewing company’s new Dutch law governed €3.5bn revolving credit facility agreement.

  • ING Bank NV: advising on a new €750m working capital RCF for N.V. Eneco, a major Dutch utility company.

Professional experience

Bram frequently delivers training sessions for clients on issues arising in leveraged and investment grade finance.

Education and qualifications

Bram studied law at Maastricht University and recently graduated from INSEAD, where he pursued an MBA in both Singapore and France.

He speaks Dutch and English.