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Boutique Transactional Law Firm

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      • HEATHER EISENLORD
      • JESE D. JIMENEZ
      • GEOFREY L. MASTER
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      • PATRICIA O. SULSER
      • WILLIAM A. WILSON III
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      • EXPERTISE 
        • EXPERTISE
        • Specialized Finance
        • Energy and Infrastructure
        • Venture Capital, Private Equity
        • Fund Formation and Securities
        • M&A, Joint Ventures
        • Telecom, Media & Entertainment
        • Sourcing and Technology​
        • Investigations
        • Litigation and Arbitration
        • Regulatory Law
        • Private Client
      • ATTORNEYS 
        • HEATHER EISENLORD
        • JESE D. JIMENEZ
        • GEOFREY L. MASTER
        • RICHARD MORRIS
        • PATRICIA O. SULSER
        • WILLIAM A. WILSON III
    LLC
    LLC

    Boutique Transactional Law Firm

    • HOME
    • EXPERTISE 
      • EXPERTISE
      • Specialized Finance
      • Energy and Infrastructure
      • Venture Capital, Private Equity
      • Fund Formation and Securities
      • M&A, Joint Ventures
      • Telecom, Media & Entertainment
      • Sourcing and Technology​
      • Investigations
      • Litigation and Arbitration
      • Regulatory Law
      • Private Client
    • ATTORNEYS 
      • HEATHER EISENLORD
      • JESE D. JIMENEZ
      • GEOFREY L. MASTER
      • RICHARD MORRIS
      • PATRICIA O. SULSER
      • WILLIAM A. WILSON III
    • …  
      • HOME
      • EXPERTISE 
        • EXPERTISE
        • Specialized Finance
        • Energy and Infrastructure
        • Venture Capital, Private Equity
        • Fund Formation and Securities
        • M&A, Joint Ventures
        • Telecom, Media & Entertainment
        • Sourcing and Technology​
        • Investigations
        • Litigation and Arbitration
        • Regulatory Law
        • Private Client
      • ATTORNEYS 
        • HEATHER EISENLORD
        • JESE D. JIMENEZ
        • GEOFREY L. MASTER
        • RICHARD MORRIS
        • PATRICIA O. SULSER
        • WILLIAM A. WILSON III
      LLC
      • HEATHER EISENLORD

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        E-mail:  heisenlord@wilsonwilliams.com

         

         

      • Curriculum Vitae

        Areas of Concentration/Practice Areas

        Finance (with focus on private debt deals, impact investment and development finance)

         

        Corporate Law (start-up and growth-stage social enterprises)

         

        Business and Human Rights; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

         

        Employment

        Wilson Williams LLC, New York, NY, partner, October 2021 – present

         

        RPCK Rastegar Panchal, New York, NY, partner; of counsel, 2017 to September 2021

         

        International Senior Lawyers Project, New York, NY, director, 2011-2017

         

        Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, associate, 2003-2005; 2007-2011

         

        Arent Fox LLP, New York, NY, associate, 2005-2007

        Bar Admissions

        New York

        Education

        The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, J.D., 2003 (with highest honors)

         

        Member, The George Washington Law Review

         

        Order of the Coif

         

        Dean's Fellow, Legal Research and Writing Department

         

        Summer program in post-Soviet legal transition at Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia 2001)

         

        Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, B.A., 1996

         

        Summer program in political theory and race relations at Cambridge University (Cambridge, England 1996)

         

        Rating and Honors

        Finalist, 2021 Grunin Center Prize for Law and Social Entrepreneurship (Dual Guarantee Facility to Finance Healthcare Needs at the Frontlines of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa)

         

        Finalist, 2019 Grunin Center Prize for Law and Social Entrepreneurship (Blended Finance Structure for a Multi-Strategy Investment Fund)

        Languages

        English, Spanish (Fair), Russian (Beginner), French (Beginner)

      • Significant Representations and Experience

        Finance / Investments

        Advised the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”) on a first-loss capital loan to the IIX Women’s Catalyst Fund to catalyze bond issuances financing gender-lens investing to support climate action and gender equality.

         

        Advised DFC on its purchase of a limited partnership interest in a Mauritius fund investing in control positions in African companies.

         

        Advised DFC on its direct loan to a Kenyan agricultural lender making subloans to companies in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, and Tanzania.

         

        Advised DFC on its loan to a fund onlending, directly and via financial intermediaries, to agribusiness small and medium enterprises.

         

        Advised DFC on its interests involving its ownership of senior, unsecured notes issued by a Luxembourg SICAV on-lending to SME’s affected by COVID-19.

         

        Advised a leading global environmental organization on easements and site agreements to facilitate tax credit-financed infrastructure solutions to improve water quality and climate resilience at stormwater retention ponds across the United States.

         

        Represented Malaria No More on an emergency dual-guaranty facility, which paired recoverable grants from philanthropic foundations with USDFC capital to backstop up to $30 million in loans made by the Medical Credit Fund to private healthcare providers in Sub-Saharan Africa that were at risk of closure due to COVID-19.

         

        Advised a leading impact investor on multiple limited partnership investments into private equity funds financing clean energy initiatives in the United States.

         

        Advised a leading impact investor on various debt and equity investments in Sub-Saharan Africa across sectors including affordable housing, fintech, and public education.

         

        Advised the Open Road Alliance on multiple loans to bridge financing gaps for social enterprises operating in Sub-Saharan Africa.

         

        Advised an impact lender in connection with its flexible senior/subordinated co-financed revolving credit facility in favor of a social enterprise that hosts a digital platform that allows small- to medium-sized businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain safe, efficient, and transparent access to global supply chains.

         

        Advised an impact investor on its direct and indirect solar tax equity investments to finance solar projects with municipal and non-profit partners across New England.

         

        Advised Zoma Foundation on its debt facility to finance a social enterprises’ down payment assistance program to help Denver public educators purchase homes in the Denver metropolitan area.

         

        Prepared debt finance templates for impact investors, including impact funds and charitable foundations.

         

        Advised charitable foundations regarding program-related investments and mission-related investments in connection with direct and indirect debt and equity transactions.

         

        Advised communities in the Kerio Valley regarding their rights in connection with Tullow Oil’s exploration and potential development activities on their lands; developed strategies to help communities obtain land title from the Kenyan government.

         

        Advised a major U.S. energy company in connection with the leveraged financing of a spin-off of its nuclear division.

         

      • Publications and Speeches

        Publications

        Publications

        How Debt Finance is Driving Capital to the Front Lines of COVID-19 in Africa, RPCK Perspectives (February 2021)

        Guide to Land Contracts: Forestry Projects, 2nd ed., Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment in partnership with the International Senior Lawyers Project (January 2017) (Lead Author and Editor)

         

        Guide to Land Contracts: Agricultural Projects Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment in partnership with the International Senior Lawyers Project (March 2016) (Lead Author and Editor)

         

        A Proper Refusal of Deference: An Analysis of Humane Society v. Glickman in Light of the Supreme Court's Most Recent Standard for Judicial Review of Agency Statutory Interpretation, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 390 (2002)

         

        Speeches

        Panelist, Practicing and Shaping the Law in the Era of Impact, Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and

        Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond, New York, NY 2021

         

        Panel Leader, Innovative Blended Finance for Climate Solutions, SOCAP19, San Francisco, CA 2019

         

        Panelist, Democratization of Impact Investing, Sustainatopia 2019, Miami, FL 2019

         

        Panelist, Regenerative Agriculture, High Water Women’s Sixth Annual Investing for Impact

        2018 Symposium, New York, NY, October 2018

         

        Panel Leader, Inclusive Development: How Human Rights Frameworks Can Help Impact Investors

        Maximize Impact and Avoid Unintended Consequences, GIIN/ISLP Legal Practitioners Track

        Third Annual Convening, New York, NY, November 2017

         

        Discussion Leader, Outside the Law Firm: What Impact-Seeking Professionals Want and Need from

        Their Lawyers, IILWG Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing,

        New York, NY, May 2017

         

        Workshop Leader, International Senior Lawyers Project's Training Program on Representing

        Development-Impacted Communities, New York, NY, May 2017

         

        Co-Presenter, Bringing Sustainable Principles to a Transactional Lawyering Practice, Columbia

        Society of International Law Speaker Series, New York, NY, March 2016

         

        Session Leader, Enhancing Companies' Respect for the Human Rights of Affected Communities, Columbia

        Center on Sustainable Investment's Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture,

        New York, NY, March 2015

         

        Co-Presenter, Land Grabbing, Human Rights, and the Law, Columbia Law School, New York, NY,

        April 2014

         

        Co-Presenter, Professional Excellence: How to Manage Working Partnerships, Bridges Across Borders

        Southeast Asia's 2nd SE Asia/Asia Pro Bono Conference & Workshop, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,

        October 2013

         

        Presenter, Human Rights and the Cambodian Land-Grabbing Epidemic, Khmer People Network for

        Cambodia's Cambodian National Conference, Arlington, VA, October 2012

         

      • Community Service

        Community Service

        Stateless Dignity Project, Board Member, 2018 – Present

       

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