Banking and Finance
Our highly regarded Banking and Finance team has a comprehensive understanding of the issues faced by all its clients in today's challenging financial environment.
We provide clear and pragmatic advice and recognise that many banking and finance deals are the start of a new relationship between lender and borrower. Good communication and clear purpose from the legal team will allow that key relationship to start on the right foot.
We are regularly instructed by lenders and investors, as well as borrowers and companies seeking finance. Our team's expertise covers a variety of financial products and services across a wide range of industry sectors. The individuals in the team have the right mix of skills, experience, commercial common sense and personality to meet each client's specific needs.
Birketts continues to impress a broad client base with a "commercial outlook which is founded on expert legal knowledge."
Chambers | UK 2012
The types of Banking and Finance work the team regularly undertakes include:
- acquisition finance, including debt and equity funding of acquisitions, takeovers (both private and public), mergers, MBOs, MBIs and BIMBOs
- property finance, including advising on funding acquisitions of land, investment property and development/construction funding
- syndicated loans
- venture capital and private equity and/or debt investments
- development capital
- re-financings
- restructurings/work-outs
- private finance and loan arrangements
- asset finance/asset backed lending
- funding in relation to franchise arrangements
- hedging transactions
- general banking and security matters
Clients include Barclays Bank plc, Lloyds Banking Group, Santander, HSBC Bank plc, Clydesdale Bank plc, The Co-operative Bank plc, AIB Group (UK) plc, Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Ipswich Building Society, Crown Mortgage Management Ltd, Sloane Robinson Private Equity (SRPE LLP), Key Capital Partners, Create Partners Ltd and Cambridge Capital Partners as well as a number of private lenders.