Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is a Partner at A&O Shearman in Singapore, focusing on Banking and Finance Law. She is experienced in a broad range of financing transactions, including project finance, structured finance, general corporate and syndicated lending, green and sustainability-linked finance, leverage finance and private credit transactions.

She has acted on innovative and award-winning transactions, both sponsor and lender side, for a breadth of clients including development finance institutions, corporates, credit funds, ECAs and commercial lenders.

She has extensive experience advising on cross-border transactions in developing markets in ASEAN and the wider Asia-Pacific region, in particular Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Jessica has a particular focus on data centres and other digital infrastructure, renewables, green and sustainability-linked finance, development finance transactions and private credit.

Her representative matters include advising EdgeConneX Inc. on US$403.8 million sustainability-linked facilities for its subsidiary PT Graha Teknologi Nusantara to finance the build-out and capacity expansion of an existing multi-tenant data centre and the development of greenfield built-to-suit data centre facilities for a global hyperscaler in Jakarta, Indonesia, awarded IJ Global “Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year” in 2024; advising AdaniConneX on the largest data centre financing in India, to finance its under-construction data centre portfolio of 67MW in Noida and Chennai, awarded “Digital Deal of the Year” at the PFI Awards 2024; advising the Mandated Lead Arrangers on the financing of the 145 MW Cirata floating solar PV project in Indonesia, awarded “Asia-Pacific Solar Deal of the Year” at the PFI Awards 2022; advising the Lenders (including ADB and IFC) on the financing to Prime Road Alternative (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. for a 60MW solar power project in Kampong Chhnang province, awarded “Cambodia: Renewable Energy Deal of the Year” at The Asset Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2023; and advising IFC, ADB and DEG on a US$300,000,000 blue loan to Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, one of the first blue loans in Asia Pacific.

Her expertise covers finance, corporate and M&A, environmental climate and regulatory law, asset finance, leveraged finance, trade, commodity and export credit finance, complex commercial transactions, and private equity, with industries spanning energy, banks, mining and metals, oil and gas, power, and private equity.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management from the University of Western Australia (2013), and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the Australian National University (2014). She was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the State of Western Australia in 2014 and as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2024.