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Jonathan Bevan

Partner

Jon is UK Head of Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure and has wide-ranging expertise in infrastructure through his experience on a variety of transactions in the infrastructure and energy space including acquisitions, financings, refinancings, construction, development, operations, concessions, PPPs and franchising. 

Jon acts for sponsors, lenders and other providers of capital, contractors and governments and is very familiar with multiple debt products including project financing, acquisition financing and leasing as well bank/bond structures, private placements and debt platforms.

Jon is also head of the global rail group and offers wide-ranging expertise in relation to rail through his experience advising a broad range of clients across the spectrum of rail-related transactions. He is ranked in Tier 1 for rail by both Chambers and Legal500.

Experience

Representative matters

Eversholt Rail on its original bank/bond/private placement debt platform and all subsequent financings.

Mitsui on the disposal of its European rolling stock business.

Heathrow Airport’s lenders on all debt financing.

The lenders on Tel Aviv green line metro project.

Hitachi Rail on all aspects of the IEP West and East PPPs and on the concession for the provision of rolling stock for HS2. 

 


Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1993

Academic

MA, University of Cambridge, 1989

Languages

English
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A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.