As the challenges of modern business have increased, the funding solutions required by corporates, and the financial products offered by banks, have grown in complexity. Lenders and borrowers share the desire to access and use capital, and to manage financial risk, in more efficient and cost effective ways.

 

BLG's banking and financing team acts for banks and financial institutions, in the UK and overseas, as well as corporates, on a variety of structured finance matters.  We have acted both for the arrangers and providers of these innovative financing techniques and products, as well as for the end users.

 

Structured finance demands a legal understanding of a range of financial markets and disciplines, of those who operate in them, of the risks to be addressed, and of the products and services offered. Increasingly, banks, insurers, and other corporates are having to address themselves to the effective and cost-efficient management of their customers', and their own, business, financial and regulatory risks. The knowledge and experience of BLG's banking and finance team, as well as BLG's resource and expertise in the areas of corporate finance, tax, financial market regulation, and alternative risk transfer and litigation and dispute resolution, make the firm highly suited to the challenges of structured finance.

 

With our in depth understanding of the insurance industry, we are uniquely placed to advise on such structures.  Transactions and disputes on which we have been involved or have worked together with members of the firm's specialist insurance and reinsurance teams include:

Our combination of skills has allowed us to advise in relation to a number of the capital markets' most innovative structured finance transactions, including corporate "whole  business" securitisations, as well as ground-breaking securitisations related to the reinsurance and Lloyd's markets.