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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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