Our Banking team comprises specialist lawyers from our commercial law, corporate law and property law teams.

We have an experienced legal team to draw upon, with a strong reputation for offering specialist legal advice on banking matters. We advise on a number of different types of banking services, including:-

• Structured / leveraged finance
• Acquisition lending
• Real estate lending
• Mezzanine finance
• Asset-based lending
• Syndicated loan agreements
• Bilateral loan agreements

We negotiate and advise on all types of facility and loan agreements and the security options available to lenders and borrowers. These security options include legal charges, debentures, charges over intellectual property rights and charges over shares amongst others.

Our banking reputation and skillset has seen our appointment to a number of banking panels, including those of Metro Bank plc and National Westminster Bank plc.

Recent banking projects include:

• Advising UK lender on £4.5m lend to facilities management provider:  Advising high-street lender on acquisition finance £4.5m lend to facilities management provider to acquire entire issued share capital of other facilities management business.
• Advising specialist ATM services group on a £21m re-finance of existing loan facility. Advising specialist ATM services group on re-finance of existing loan facilities with term loan facility of up to £21m and invoice finance facility.
• Advising property developer on re-finance of three sites for £15.2m. Advising UK property developer on re-finance of three sites for aggregate value of £15.2m, including dealing with further equity releases.
• Advising mezzanine lender on assignment of debt from lender in administration: Advising mezzanine lender on assignment of £1.4m of debt from third-party lender in administration to mezzanine lender and subsequent further facility of £2.6m.