Amy Mahon

Based in London, Amy Mahon is Co-Head of the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice and advises a range of clients through all stages of the investment cycle within the energy and infrastructure sector. She counsels infrastructure funds and corporate clients on complex domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and consortium transactions, and restructurings across the infrastructure sector. 

• TPIH Iberia S.L.U in connection with the sale of its 49% stake in COSCO SHIPPING Ports (Spain) Holding, S.L. to CMA CGM Group 
• Stonepeak on its recapitalization of euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company
• KKR in its sale of X-Elio, a leading global renewable power company, to Brookfield
• Viridor  (a portfolio company of KKR) in connection with their recommended offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares in Quantafuel ASA
• KKR in its subscription for convertible bonds issued by Greenvolt
• John Laing in its acquisition of a portfolio of assets comprising Towercom, Valley Healthcare and CCD from the Irish Infrastructure Fund 
• Stonepeak in its €1.0 billion minority equity investment in Inspired Education
• EQT in its acquisition of InstaVolt
• KKR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Refresco
• KKR in its NOK 7.2 billion acquisition of Ocean Yield
• Cubico in its renewable energy joint venture with Peel Energy
• KKR in its announced £2 billion acquisition of John Laing Group plc
• Consortium comprising KKR, Macquarie and other investors, in its attempted £15 billion acquisition of UK Power Networks from CK Infrastructure, which aborted 
• KKR Global Infrastructure Investors Fund III in its acquisition of Viridor Limited, and Viridor in its subsequent carve-out sale of its collections business and the majority of its recycling locations to Biffa plc
• Consortium including Global Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Asset Management in its $20.7 billion energy infrastructure deal with The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Holdings plc

Amy is recognized as a leading practitioner by Chambers UK for infrastructure and private equity where clients describe her as “brilliant technically, commercial and user-friendly.” She was a contributing editor for the first edition of Chambers Global Practice Guide to Private Equity, which offers a comparative analysis of private equity across the globe. Amy was recently honored in Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Europe Awards 2021 as “Private Equity Lawyer of the Year,” as well as named to The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” list and honored as part of Legal Week’s “Women, Influence & Power in Law U.K.” awards. She was also recognized amongst the IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021 and 2022.

Amy received her Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law of England and Wales in 1998 and her LL.B. from Trinity College Dublin in 1997.