Pragmatic and commercially astute advice to raise and
lend funds in the debt or capital markets.
We provide senior level expertise to clients who raise or lend
funds in the debt or capital markets. We understand the markets and
offer pragmatic and commercially astute advice.
Our team comprises dedicated lawyers in the UK, France, Germany
and Spain, together with finance, corporate, real estate,
technology, media, telecommunications, tax, pensions, employment
and litigation lawyers involved with lending, borrowing,
restructuring and insolvency matters.
Our clients, who range from financial institutions and private
equity sponsors to large corporates, are quick to notice our
business acumen, rapid turnaround and absolute commitment to their
business.
We provide transactional services across a full range of debt
structures:
- loan facilities, including trade credits, letters of credit, guarantee facilities, overdrafts and receivables financings;
- senior, mezzanine and bridge financing structures;
- structured finance, including bond and note issues, securitisation, monetisation, synthetic sale arrangements and derivatives;
- acquisition finance, including public bids, leveraged management buy-outs and schemes of arrangement; and
- real estate finance, including acquisitions of commercial property, development loans and hunting facilities for opportunity funds.
We also provide advisory services to clients in relation to
business and transaction structuring, including structured
financing, counterparty risk analysis, restructuring and
insolvency.
All our offices embrace the sector expertise of our real estate,
retail and leisure, telecoms, technology, life sciences and media
practice groups. Our cross practice approach allows us to provide
in depth commercial insight to clients seeking financial and
operational debt financing and restructuring advice.
We are a leader in pensions restructuring, having set up the first
dedicated pensions restructuring practice, our Pensions
Restructuring Special Situations Group ("PReSS"). We are also
one of the very rare experts in the specialist area of
restructuring NHS and Foundation Trusts Hospitals.
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