Finance

The turmoil in the world’s financial markets is presenting a continually increasing number of challenges to both providers and users of finance. Although the present issues are affecting different areas in different ways, common themes are emerging. Transactions – especially where existing transactions are being restructured or refinanced – often need to be completed within extraordinarily tight deadlines, but not at the expense of the legal robustness of the documentation.

Our Finance Group is active across a wide spectrum of international and domestic finance, covering the needs of global investment and domestic banks, asset managers, investment funds (retail, institutional and alternative), other financial institutions, industry bodies, sovereign entities, corporate end-users and ultra high net worth individuals.

Our exposure to all areas of the market and the wide scope of our client base enable us to see issues from all angles and in the right context. This makes our advice both comprehensive and comprehensible.

We have lawyers with the right specialisms and experience to make sure that our advice is focused and, when needed, innovative.

Our expertise includes:

Our finance lawyers’ expertise is complemented by that of other teams, including corporate finance, dispute resolution, pensions, real estate, tax and technology law, with advice being provided seamlessly from London and our other European offices.