Ilze Vigo

Director

Languages spoken
English | Latvian | Russian

About Ilze

Ilze Vigo is a director in the Financial Services Practice, based in the London office. She has more than 15 years of experience as a general banking lawyer, acting on a wide range of bilateral and syndicated financing transactions in a variety of industries.

Ilze uses her broad experience to help multinational companies, financial institutions and other clients on corporate, bank and sovereign debt, leveraged finance, and receivables and asset-backed financing transactions.

Experience

  • Acting for a supplier of food processing systems on several financings, including its sustainability-linked syndicated credit facility and its leveraged financing of the acquisition of a company in the Netherlands.
  • Representing a listed company in relation to the financing of its acquisition of a US company.
  • Assisting an African multilateral finance institution on a number of secured and unsecured financing transactions in Africa.
  • Assisting a number of investment companies and sponsors with the recapitalisation of their portfolio companies.
  • Representing several insurance companies in connection with collateral arrangements relating to insurance and reinsurance arrangements (including longevity risk transfers).
  • Acting for a major international bank on a series of loans to a bank in Azerbaijan.
  • Assisting a multinational vehicle manufacturer on vehicle financing arrangements.

Credentials

Education
  • London Guildhall University, LL.B., Business Law, 2001
  • University of Latvia, LL.B., 2000
Admissions
  • England and Wales, 2004

Expertise