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Banking and finance

Expert legal guidance for banking and finance matters, tailored to your business needs.

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Our expertise spans complex financing transactions for clients operating within the UK and across multiple jurisdictions.

With a reputation for our sector knowledge, we understand the challenges faced by our clients in today’s financial markets. Our team stand alongside our clients, supporting them to respond to market pressures, including challenges from increasing levels of financial distress, liquidity challenges and regulatory change and increased scrutiny, as well as helping them to navigate threats and opportunities resulting from the rapidly evolving digital economy, and green or ESG based financings.

Our banking and finance lawyers represent a diverse client base, including more than 50 banks, building societies, funds and financial institutions, alongside numerous PLCs and large corporate clients globally.

Our expertise

Real estate finance

Bringing specialist advice on real estate finance across various asset classes.

Real estate finance

Leveraged finance

Our leveraged finance lawyers provide transactional and strategic legal advice to lenders, investors and their investee companies, in the UK and in European leveraged finance markets.

Leveraged finance

Fund finance

Client-centric expertise, working with our fund clients as their funding requirements evolve, and working with our lender clients as they grow this area of their business.

Fund finance

Energy and infrastructure finance

Delivering bespoke legal expertise for energy and infrastructure finance, working alongside our clients to deliver innovative projects across the energy and infrastructure market.

Energy and infrastructure finance

Corporate debt and asset backed finance

Advising financiers and corporates on both domestic and cross-border financings from syndicated/bilateral facilities, private placements and acquisition finance, to asset finance, invoice discounting and other asset backed facilities.

Corporate debt and asset backed finance

Derivatives

Our derivatives team advises on a broad range of derivatives and hedging transactions, documentation and regulatory issues.

Derivatives

Our team

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Examples of our work

Finance in Motion

Advising funds managed by Finance in Motion, on loan arrangements made to Bank Lviv, Ukraine, which will be for recovery-focused loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises with a focus on achieving stability and growth in the Ukrainian MSME sector, supporting the businesses despite the uncertainties of war.

NIBC Bank

Advising NIBC Bank on the financing of ServerFarm’s acquisition of 5NINES Global Holdings, a multi-jurisdiction data centre transformation operator, described as “one of the world’s most innovative data center operators”.

GCP Infrastructure Investments Limited

Advising GCP Infrastructure Investments Limited on Eden’s ground-breaking geothermal project – the UK’s first operating deep geotherm heating plant since 1986.

Lanesborough Management Limited

Advising Lanesborough Management Limited in relation to its loan facilities provided by First Abu Dhabi Bank (London Branch) as lender to refinance existing borrowings relating to the Lanesborough Hotel, London.

FirstGroup plc

Advising FirstGroup plc on its bus fleet decarbonisation programme for up to 1,000 electric buses, involving parallel debt funding from MUFG, SMBC and NatWest, and syndicated hire purchase funding (documented as a green loan) from Lloyds, NatWest and Bank of America.

Oxygen Conservation

Advising Oxygen Conservation on the largest conservation focused commercial debt package in the UK to date. The funding will be used to support a diverse range of economically positive projects including regenerative agriculture, woodland creation, renewable energy generation, sustainable housing and eco-tourism, and carbon sequestration through woodland and peatland restoration.

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What others say

“Clear explanations and good availability. All work carried out efficiently and with a good sense of humour. They are very easy to get on with on a personal level which is critical in building relationships”

Legal 500, UK 2024

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