Claire Williams
UK Guide 2025
Up and Coming : Infrastructure
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About
Provided by Claire Williams
Practice Areas
Partner in Simpson Thacher’s London Office whose practice focuses on infrastructure debt finance matters. She represents financial sponsors, funds and portfolio companies, as well as private debt investors, on complex cross-border financings across a wide range of infrastructure asset classes (including, among others, energy and energy transition, regulated utilities, transport and digital infrastructure). Claire has extensive experience on senior and subordinated financing structures for acquisition (including public-to-private), capex roll-out and refinancing transactions and regularly advises clients on multi-source and rated debt raisings.
Career
Joined Firm in 2021.
Professional Memberships
The Law Society of England and Wales (2011).
Personal
LLB, English and French Law, King’s College London and Paris-Sorbonne University (2007); Legal Practice Course, London College of Law (2009).
Chambers Review
UK
Claire Williams is an up-and-coming partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She regularly advises infrastructure funds and financial sponsors on cross-border acquisition financing and debt refinancings.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Claire is an extraordinary talented lawyer with a think-outside-the-box mindset."
"Claire is a very good lawyer. She knows client structures well and is very commercial."
"Claire is an extraordinary talented lawyer with a think-outside-the-box mindset."
"Claire is a very good lawyer. She knows client structures well and is very commercial."