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Joywin Mathew has a broad debt capital markets, structured finance and debt finance practice spanning over 19 years in London, Singapore and, presently, in the UAE.
Joywin routinely handles a wide range of public and private international debt transactions, and other complex high-value debt transactions, including project bonds, loan-on-loan (back-leverage facilities) transactions, securitisations, fund finance, hybrid finance and other innovative debt finance products. Joywin’s clients include investment funds, private credit funds, sovereign governments, multinational corporates, financial institutions and other alternative credit providers.
Joywin is a keen contributor to thought leadership on matters relating to sustainable finance, and regularly participates in various forums related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainable finance. Joywin is also an industry recognised expert on blue finance and climate finance, and works with a diverse group of stakeholders on advancing the cause of a sustainable ocean economy and in particular on how blue finance and blue bonds can play a critical role in unlocking financing for ocean initiatives, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to the ocean.
Joywin is a member of the United Nations Global Compact’s Ocean Investment Protocol Advisory Board and a member of the Legal Experts Committee of the Centre for Sustainable Development set up by the University of Cambridge and the Commonwealth Secretariat to provide legal and strategic advice on appropriate regulatory frameworks that could enable access to funds to small island developing states.
Joywin is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Blue Bond Accelerator (BBA), a new initiative from the Ocean Risk Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) and a key finance instrument of the Sea Change Impact Financing Facility (SCIFF), designed to drive long-term, large-scale capital flows from global fixed-income markets into the sustainable blue economy, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Joywin is “recommended” by Legal 500 UK for Debt Capital Markets.
Advising a Caribbean sovereign state on its debut sovereign issuance and in the preparation of its blue bond framework.*
Advising a diverse range of lenders, including Mizuho Bank, MUFG, Deutsche Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Axis Bank, Yes Bank Limited, State Bank of India, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited and CA-CIB, on various debt financing products involving obligors from the US, the UK, the EU, the UAE, Singapore and India.
Advising the arrangers, JP Morgan, HSBC, BNPP and Standard Chartered, on a proposed Additional Tier 1 Bonds issuance by one of the largest banks in India.
Advising the arranger and lenders, Astra Capital Management, on the loan-on-loan (back-leverage) financing in relation to a €170 million commercial real estate portfolio in the Netherlands.*
Advising the lenders, H.I.G. Capital, on loan-on-loan financing that involved the issuance of two series of notes valued at €130 million, listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange, with a concurrent restructuring of the Impreme Group. The notes were secured with a variety of assets, including several key real estate assets in Rome.*
Advising Aberdeen Infrastructure and funds managed by Dalmore Capital on refinancing of St. James’s Oncology Centre in Leeds. The refinancing involved an innovative public listing of £50 million in principal amount of fixed-rate bonds (including £7 million in principal amount of variation bonds) and £38 million in principal amount of inflation-linked bonds, together with £173 million in principal amount of fixed rate privately placed notes. Assured Guaranty wrapped the full £261 million of bonds and notes.*
*Matters handled prior to joining the firm.