Delyth Hughes

Delyth’s experience includes:

Margin Lending

• Acting for a leading Central European energy group in respect of two separate margin loans, each secured over shares in large European utilities companies
• Advising Certain financial institutions on defaults under existing margin lending transactions
• Advising leading financial institutions in drafting and negotiating large cross-border margin loan transactions

Fixed Income and Advisory

• Advising various sponsors, borrowers, and hedge counterparties in respect of finance-linked hedging transactions for leveraged finance, project finance, and securitization transactions
• Drafting and negotiating a suite of ISDA documentation on behalf of a large UK corporate, to be entered into with multiple bank counterparties, in connection with its internal restructuring
• Acting for buy-side and sell-side clients in drafting and negotiating ISDA and GMRA documentation
• Advising a number of financial institutions and non-financial counterparties with respect to their obligations under EMIR and the procedures, processes, and documents to be implemented to address the issues identified

Islamic Finance

• Advising a large investment bank in respect of a highly structured, Shari’ah compliant repo transaction and Luxembourg security structure

Structured Finance

• Advising Clifford Capital, a Singapore-based specialist arranger and provider of project and structured finance solutions, as the sponsor, manager and subordinated note investor of the first infrastructure project finance securitization in Asia. This transaction was awarded the Asia-Pacific Bond Deal of the Year in 2018 and Asian-mena Deal of the Year in 2018 and Structure Finance and Securitisation Deals of the Year at the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2019