Clifford Chance advises a syndicate of European lenders on Fastned’s €200 million green loan facility

23 January 2026

• Titus de Vries, Herman Steinvoort, Esmée Oldenkamp, Stern Flik, Robin Houtveen, Sanne Blankestijn, David Neu, Christopher Banks, Wim Aerts, Sonia Belhassen, Stijn Van Walleghem
• Amsterdam, Brussels, Munich

Clifford Chance advises a syndicate of European lenders on Fastned’s €200 million green loan facility

Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised a syndicate of European lenders comprising ABN AMRO, Crédit Agricole, ING, Invest-NL and Rabobank, on a green loan facility of up to €200 million for Fastned, a European fast-charging company.

The facility includes an initial €100 million in committed capital over three years to fund station rollout in Belgium and Switzerland, with an uncommitted €100 million accordion option for further expansion into other markets. The five-year, non-recourse facility will support Fastned’s network rollout, upgrades and acquisition of new locations for development, supporting its ambition to operate 1,000 stations by 2030. Read more about this transaction here.

The Clifford Chance team advising on this transaction consisted of Titus de Vries (lead partner), Herman Steinvoort, Yassin van Meel and Rody Mettler (Infrastructure Finance), Esmée Oldenkamp (Notary), Stern Flik and Robin Houtveen (Tax), Sanne Blankestijn and Maria Boerman (Employment) in Amsterdam. Additional support came from David Neu and Christopher Banks (Finance) in Munich, and Wim Aerts and Sonia Belhassen (Finance) and Stijn van Walleghem (Tax) in Brussels.

Lenz & Staehelin acted as the Swiss legal counsel to the lenders in this transaction.