Banking and finance today involves selling commoditised, mass-market products, as well as engineering highly-structured, tailored solutions for individual clients. It embraces traditional relationship lending and access to global capital markets. While these lines of business are separate, elements of each are increasingly being applied in single transactions.

 

We act for banks and financial institutions, both in the UK and overseas, as well as for companies and investors looking to raise finance, across the spectrum of financial activity.

 

With broad transactional experience and legal expertise, we are able to develop innovative solutions for our clients' customers and to implement financing transactions successfully.

 

Our specialist practice areas include acquisition finance (including public - privates), trade finance, asset finance and leasing, and structured finance (in particular using asset-based lending techniques).

 

Drawing on the depth and breadth of our firm's insurance expertise, our banking practice also encompasses the development of insurance-related financial products and alternative risk transfer solutions.

 

Whether acting for banks or borrowers, we adopt a practical and commercial approach. We are always conscious of the fact that a deal signing is just the first phase of the borrower/funder relationship.

 

When disputes do arise in relation to banking and finance products and relationships, clients turn to our highly-rated litigation and dispute resolution team. The team has a thorough understanding of an extensive range of banking transactions and financial instruments, developed from handling domestic and cross-border disputes for financial institutions and their clients for many years.