Banking

Our international banking and finance team operates as one acting for banks, other lenders, financial institutions, government agencies and corporates on complex and innovative transactions across the globe. Renowned for their extensive experience across the finance sector, our lawyers are celebrated for their technical expertise, pragmatic advice and solutions-focused approach.

We prioritise efficiency and a commercial mindset to ensure your transactions are executed swiftly and effectively. Leveraging our comprehensive experience, we ensure we provide the most suitable solution. From our global offices, our lawyers offer expert advice on international banking matters, ensuring support worldwide.

Areas of focus, acting for both borrowers and lenders in relation to:

• Acquisition and leveraged finance: acting on all aspects of cross border and domestic leveraged acquisition finance
• Corporate trust and loan agency
• Corporate lending: secured and unsecured lending work, syndicated and bilateral loan agreements and asset finance.
• ESG and Sustainable finance
• Funds finance
• Islamic finance
• Real estate finance: we act for both lenders and borrowers and we cover the full range of financing and funding transactions, including bank financings, securitisations and mortgage portfolio transfers. Our advice includes tax structuring, for example to mitigate stamp duty liability.
• Restructuring and special situations
• Trade and commodity finance: across the whole spectrum of trade and commodity finance products, including financing and monetisation of commodities in production, transit and storage, receivables financing, export credit agency-backed financings and trade finance instruments.

Our banking and finance team in collaboration with Simmons Wavelength also have experience advising clients on technology-driven solutions and the development and implementation of digitalisation projects within their banking and finance teams.