Financing

Our financing lawyers are highly regarded for their excellence, broad experience and versatility. We have a strong reputation for working on the most difficult, demanding and innovative deals and we aim to provide the highest quality of service to all types of clients, including financial institutions, corporates, sovereigns and other organisations.

We act for many leading UK and international corporates, and support them in all their treasury transactions, making us a pre-eminent adviser to corporate borrowers and issuers. In addition we work for major financial institutions, usually on their most challenging transactions or those involving novel instruments or structures. Separately, our corporate recovery and insolvency practice has an unmatched track record in acting on the most high profile cases in recent years.

Our financing expertise includes:

• acquisition and leveraged financing, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt and high yield bonds
• derivatives of various types and forms, including interest rate, currency, credit, equity, commodity, insurance and other swaps and options, repos and stock lending
• leasing and asset finance for aircraft, ships and other capital assets
• loan finance of all kinds, including corporate and sovereign
• project finance in a variety of sectors around the world
• securitisations, including synthetic securitisation, of many types of asset in numerous countries, employing a variety of structures
• structured products, including arrangements designed to meet specific tax, accounting or regulatory objectives
• debt capital markets, including issues of bonds, commercial papers, medium term notes, convertibles, warrants, depository receipts and other securities