Caroline Hoste

• Advising National Westminster Bank in relation to the financing of the construction and operation of a greenfield biomass CHP plant of 19.99 MWe and 62MWth in the port of Ghent in Belgium set up by Belgian Eco Energy and Equitix as Sponsors.*
• Advising an international bank in connection with the financing of a hotel development project in Brussels.* 
• Assisting a French investor with the structuring and negotiations of the financing by a Belgian bank in connection with the acquisition of a Belgian group.* 
• Advising an international bank in connection with an ECA-backed credit facility to finance the purchase of equipment for a steel plant in Mexico.*
• Assisting a consortium in connection with their bids for the second Flemish school PPP, consisting out of five to ten DBFM Agreements for a total value of approx. EUR 550 million.*
• Assisting the Lenders of a consortium with regard to the DBFM Contract for the design, build, finance and maintenance of 7 bridges over the Albert canal, tendered out by the Vlaamse Waterweg, the Flemish public waterways authority.*
• Assisting the consortium of Democo, Mesa and Avico Asset Management in their successful bid for the DMFM-contract related to hangar for the maintenance of the Airbus A400M on the Melsbroek Military Airbase.*
• Assisting US financial institutions in connection with the Belgian legal aspects in cross-border ABL transactions.*
• In general, advising as lenders’ or borrowers’ counsel on acquisition, real estate, export and asset based lending financing transactions, and direct lending transactions. 

* Denotes experience from previous firm.