Jessica Rachel Jenke
Jessica Rachel Jenke
Biography
Jessica is a banking and finance lawyer based in Perth. She has extensive experience in project, acquisition and corporate financings in the property, resources, infrastructure and energy sectors. She has advised banks, government agencies, private equity funds, project sponsors and corporate borrowers on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions.
Jessica has unique commercial bank experience and insight; having rejoined the firm after spending 10 years at ANZ. During her time at ANZ, Jessica held several senior client facing roles across the institutional bank and corporate finance divisions in loan structuring and execution, customer relationship and credit analysis. Jessica had responsibility for a complex and high value customer portfolio with direct control and management of customer engagement, credit analysis and the credit submission and transaction execution processes.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
- Perth Airport – on multiple financings and refinancings of its commercial bank loan facilities, USPP note issuances and other debt capital markets issuances.
- Brookfield Rail / Arc Infrastructure - on multiple financings and refinancings of its commercial bank loan facilities, ECA-backed project financing facility, USPP note issuances and other debt capital markets issuances, including most recently establishing its AMTN programme and AMTN inaugural issuance.
- Austal Ships and its U.S. subsidiaries - on multiple financings and refinancings of its syndicated loan facilities and U.S. bond issuances, including most recently on its full refinance and upsizing programme establishing bi-facilities with 8 commercial lenders and also ECAs.
- Northern Queensland Airports - on refinancings of its commercial bank loan facilities.
- Export Finance Australia as lender - in relation to A$1.725 billion loan facilities to Iluka Resources Limited for the purpose of financing the construction and operation of the Eneabba rare earths refinery in Western Australia.
- Stanmore Resources Limited - in respect to refinancing of the group's US$500 million term and revolving facilities, and also various contingent instrument and other bonding facilities; have also advised in connection with various acquisition bids including Stanmore's bid for Anglo American's Australian coal assets.
- Resolute Mining Ltd - in respect to the refinancing of its syndicated loan facilities relating to its active operations and development projects in West Africa.
- Strike Energy Ltd - on its A$217 million financing for a portfolio of development assets, including two gas fields and an 85MW peaking gas fired power project.
- Osisko Gold Royalties - in respect to various of its royalty investments into Australia.
- Magnetic Infrastructure Group / One Rail Australia - in respect to establishment of an AMTN programme and recent A$ note issuance re-financing the original debt associated with the acquisition of One Rail Australia Holdings Ltd from Aurizon.
- PT Asian Bulk Logistics - in respect to various acquisition financings in support of various of its investments into Australia.
- Macquarie Bank Limited as borrower - on its syndicated revolving borrowing base facility, leveraging physical assets (including agricultural, energy and metal commodities, carbon emission credits and receivables) across Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets division in England, Singapore, Canada, Sweden, Germany and the United States of America.
- Macquarie Commodities Trading as borrower - on its syndicated omnibus facilities, including a borrowing base facility across the United States of America, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Bahamas, Singapore and Australia.
- The lenders - to Foundation Housing in respect to financing its community housing property portfolio.
- Bethanie Group - in respect to various debt refinancings and also its proposed HAFF funding arrangements.
- China Development Bank and other lenders - on the US$155 million cross-border project financing of a spodumene mine in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia and lithium carbonate production plant in Jiangsu, China, for Galaxy Resources Ltd.
- The lenders - on the US$494 million project financing for Moly Mines Limited in relation to the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum and iron ore projects in Western Australia.
- National Australia Bank - on the financing to Silver Lake Resources in respect of its Western Australian gold projects.
- Barclays Capital - on the structured project financing of the White Dam gold project in South Australia, developed by way of an unincorporated joint venture between Exco Resources Ltd and the Polymetals group of companies.
- Anshan Iron and Steel (as, at the time, 50:50 joint venture partner with Gindalbie Metals Ltd) - on the US$1.2 billion syndicated project financing of the Karara Iron Ore Project in Western Australia, arranged by China Development Bank and Bank of China. This deal was recognised by Australian Legal Business as the Australasian Project Finance Deal of the Year for 2011 and by Asian-Mena Counsel magazine as Deal of the Year (Project Finance and Energy and Resources) for 2010.
- Extension Hill - on the then proposed project financing for the development of the Extension Hill Magnetite Project in the Mid-West region of Western Australia.
- Macquarie Bank - as financier to Adamus Resources on the project financing for the Nzema Gold Project in Ghana.
- Credit Suisse AG - on the syndicated development financing of the Tembang Gold and Silver Project in Sumatra, Indonesia.
- Macquarie Bank - on various feasibility and pre-development financings for various mining projects located across Africa and South America (including gold, copper and coal).
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
IFLR Euromoney Legal Media Group, Australasian Women in Business Law Awards, Rising Star: Finance - Winner (2013).
Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards - Finalist (2013).
Education
Education
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - University of Western Australia (2007).
Bachelor of Commerce - Corporate Finance Major (Distinction Grade) - University of Western Australia (2007).
Admissions
Admissions
- Supreme Court of Western Australia 2009
Languages
Languages
- English
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