Amelia Heeger

Amelia Heeger is a Director in our Corporate & Commercial and Banking, Finance & Projects practice areas. She has over 25 years of experience in banking and finance. Her expertise spans leveraged finance, acquisition finance, and project finance, with a particular focus on preference share funding structures. She advises funders and sponsors on complex financing arrangements across a range of sectors, including infrastructure, mining, and renewable energy.

Amelia has extensive experience in large-scale project financings, equity refinancings and securitisation transactions. Her work includes advising on preference share funding in renewable energy projects, funding arrangements for major infrastructure assets, and the establishment of debt programmes for leading corporate borrowers. She has also advised on pioneering securitisation transactions in South Africa, including mortgage-backed securitisations, multi-seller asset-backed commercial paper conduits and synthetic collateralised debt transactions.

Amelia’s depth of technical expertise is complemented by a strong commercial understanding of financing transactions, informed by her experience advising both financial institutions and corporate clients. She is a trusted adviser on complex funding structures and continues to contribute thought leadership through her published work on finance and corporate law developments.