Alison Baxter

Alison Baxter is a banking and finance lawyer based in London.

Alison was based in Brazil from 2017 to 2020 and was named as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers by Latinvex. Prior to her move to Brazil, Alison worked as a partner in our London and Paris offices.

In Latin America, Alison led a number of high-profile and innovative oil and gas projects, corporate and asset financings, and restructurings, as well as pre-export and corporate facilities in the commodities sector, and aviation financing and leasing structures. Her work in Brazil dates back to the early 2000s when she represented the lenders and ECAs on a series of financings for a major Brazilian airline. Alison then worked with the arrangers of some of the first international oil and gas financings in Brazil for Japanese and Brazilian sponsors. In Mexico, she advised the mandated lead arrangers on the US$750m financing for SeaMex of five oil rigs for Pemex, which combined corporate, asset, and project financing principles, involved a complicated cross-border collateral structure, and was concluded during the recent regulatory changes.

Alison has a deep understanding of lender requirements, structuring techniques, and financing challenges derived from working closely with many leading financial institutions for more than two decades. She co-led our new finance group during the global financial crisis, analysing and generating market discussions around the evolution of new finance products, different sources of liquidity, and reallocation of stakeholder roles and responsibilities. She also advises corporate clients on a range of financing matters.