R. Mark Instance
Partner – UPC Renewables
Education
Lawyer - admitted to the Italian Milan Bar in 2003
Solicitor - admitted to the Law Society of England
and Wales in 1988
BA (Hon) MA (Hon) Jurisprudence Oxford University
Summary
Mark joined Clifford
Chance in 1985 and worked as a lawyer specialising
in large international structured finance transactions,
such as acquisition financing and the first securitisation
transactions in Europe and Australasia as well
as debt capital markets. He joined Clifford Chance’s
Madrid office in 1990 and opened and managed their
Barcelona office in 1993 working on transactions
that introduced techniques such as securitisation
and project finance to Spain. In 1995 he moved
to work in the Italian offices and developed a
highly successful practice in Milan running the
banking and structured finance group. Mark advised
both banks and corporations on some of the largest
acquisition financings and telecoms and energy
project financings in Italy, including advising
the IVPC wind farms from inception, until he joined
UPC International Partnership CVII, owner of IVPC,
as Global Counsel in 2003 where he remained until
co-founding UPC Renewables. He is qualified as
a solicitor in England and Wales and an Avvocato
in Italy and is a member of the Milan Bar.
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