Corporate Banking & Finance
We are adept in providing transactional advice on a plethora of banking and finance matters.
Whether you are lending or borrowing, our experience covers all aspects of banking regulations and capital deployment.
Acquisition finance
We advise on all aspects of financing domestic and cross-border leveraged buy-outs, corporate acquisitions and public takeovers.
General corporate lending
We advise on all aspects of businesses’ debt financing needs, including syndicated and bilateral term loans, revolving credit facilities, overdrafts, letters of credit and ancillary facilities.
Debt sales and purchases
The banking and finance team has a great deal of experience advising clients on the sale and purchase of debt interests, including secondary trading of syndicated loans and securitised notes, and the evaluation and execution for clients of loan-to-own strategies.
Restructuring and insolvency
We provide expert advice on solvent and insolvent restructurings and insolvency processes.
Asset-based finance
Our banking and finance team advises lenders and borrowers on this increasingly popular form of financing secured on stock and receivables.
Structured finance
Members of our team have advised issuers on the structuring and operation of structured financings and on the intercreditor issues arising between holders of classes of note.
Property finance
We regularly act for banks, alternative lenders, property companies, funds and institutions on a variety of real estate financing matters in both the residential and commercial property sectors.
Track Record
- Advising Lloyds Bank on working capital facilities secured on a fine art dealer’s stock of fine art
- Advising a consumer electronics company on the UK aspects of its financing from a US asset-based lender
- Advising a high street loan company on its working capital facilities from Silicon Valley Bank and Kreos
- Advising Codemasters on various debt financings
- Advising a UK manufacturer on its working capital facilities provided by RBS
- Advising Lloyds Bank on its financing of the acquisition of a Dutch business by a trade purchaser
- Advising several US investment banks on distressed debt sales and acquisitions
- Advising a purchaser of junior tranches of notes in a property securitisation in furtherance of a loan-to-own strategy
Recommended reading
The promotions are indicative of the firm’s continued investment in future talent and growth of its well-regarded Corporate, Private Client and Tax, Real Estate and Family teams. The newly promoted Senior Associates are; Fred Clark (Corporate); Katherine Worrall (Real Estate); Katie Male (Family); and Michael Duffy (Private Client & Tax).
Read more 13 Apr 2023 Employee ownership trusts: an underused exit for business ownersWith the employee ownership trusts on the rise, Senior Associate, Charlie Hewlett outlines the five main conditions which must be satisfied for a shareholder to be eligible for the tax benefits of selling to an employee ownership trust and the risks business owners should be aware of.
Read more 12 Apr 2023 UAE family businesses: navigating the new regulatory regimeIn Entrepreneur Middle East, Private Wealth Partner, Kyra Motley examines the UAE’s new legal framework – Federal Decree-Law No. 37 of 2022 (or ‘FDL37/22’) – which aims to support the sustainability and growth in family-owned businesses.
Read more 14 Mar 2023 Lessons for long-term growth? Ask the familyIn SME Magazine, Corporate & Commercial Partner, Richard Beavan outlines 6 lessons all businesses striving for growth under the current challenging economic conditions can learn from family businesses.
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