• Financial Services
• Energy

• Banking and Finance
• Projects
• Energy

William advises:

• Financial Institutions
• Corporate borrowers
• Domestic and international banks
• Debt funds
• Mezzanine lenders
• Private equity
• Institutional investors
• Government

Engagements

• Will has lectured to the legal trainee students of the Law Society of Ireland
• He regularly delivers lectures, presentations and addresses to Financial Services and Energy industry conferences and seminars

Education

• University College Dublin (BCL)
• The Law Society of Ireland

Professional Memberships

• The Law Society of Ireland
• The Institute of Banking
• The International Project Finance Association

• Advising Citibank N.A as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and book runner, and Bank of America, N.A. as syndication agent, joint lead arranger and book runner in connection with a $28.5 billion senior unsecured bridge loan facility for Amgen Inc. The facility will be available to Amgen Inc. to pay a portion of the cash consideration for its €26.8bn acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics PLC by means of a recommended cash offer, to be effected under a scheme of arrangement.

• Advised a syndicate of banks comprising Allied Irish Banks, Santander, Royal Bank of Canada, BNP Paribas and Commerzbank on the provision of a €250 million revolving credit facility to Greencoat plc, the renewable energy infrastructure publicly listed investment fund.

• Advised Allied Irish Banks on the financing of iCare Housing’s mortgage to rent scheme, part of Ireland’s social housing and impaired mortgage resolution initiatives.

• Advised Nordeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale on the project financing of Knockalough and Magheramore wind farms, totalling debt facilities of €137 million and electricity generation capacity of 75MW between them.

• Will, alongside a large team in MHC, is advising the Irish government on the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan, in particular in relation to the financing and security aspects of the project, a government led initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland.

• Advised Bank of Ireland on the financing of the acquisition and development of a portfolio of 4 primary healthcare centres in Ireland by MedicX, a listed healthcare fund with a value of €440 million which has 157 primary healthcare properties across the UK and Ireland.

• Advised Ulster Bank Ireland on the financing of the €33 million acquisition of Beechfield Care nursing homes by the German based IMMAC Group, part of a care group with €1.3 Billion in assets in Germany, Austria and the UK.