Jamie Macdonald

• Financial Services

• Derivatives
• Debt Capital Markets
• Structured Finance, Securitisation and Repackaging
• Financial Sanctions

Education

• Queen's University Belfast, LLB
• Queen's University Belfast, Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies

• • Continuing advices to several Irish companies and a major global multinational on their respective obligations under EMIR, in the context of commercial real estate finance and energy project finance transactions.
  • Acting for Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., providing advice and negotiating a loan linked ISDA in connection with the refinance of acquisition facilities to the Mater Private Group, Ireland’s largest private hospital group.
  • Lead counsel to a multilateral development bank on its entry into: (i) a €450 million Irish law InvestEU guarantee with the European Union; (ii) a €100 million Irish law EFSD guarantee with the European Union; and (iii) a €35 million and €115 million Irish law EFSD+ guarantees with the European Union.
  • Providing ongoing advice to Black Sea Trade and Development Bank in relation to the EU’s financial services regulatory framework (including EMIR, SFTR and MAR) and the EU’s Russia/Ukraine sanctions regime.
  • Trustee counsel to Apex Corporate Trustees (UK) Limited on the MBA Community Loans PLC €1 billion secured limited recourse note programme.
  • Ongoing lead counsel to FlexFunds (a provider of customised repackaging and securitisation products) and Irish-incorporated ‘section 110’ issuers on the set-up of, and issuances under, secured note programmes, including advices relating to life-cycle corporate actions and events.
  • Trustee counsel to City Partnership Trustee Limited on the set-up of, and issuances under, the S1Series DAC and CCAP DAC secured limited recourse variable return amount note programmes.