An ability to innovate around sophisticated financing structures at both a national and international level is increasingly important to the successful outcome of a transaction. Taylor Wessing’s international Finance team can create, advise and implement all aspects of debt and equity participation for you through our own offices and via our well–established networks.
Our Finance team acts for a diverse range of clients, including substantial borrowers and sponsors operating through funds and family offices, bank and non–bank lenders and institutions in multiple jurisdictions. We are recognised as a market leader in real estate, leveraged, trade and receivables financings, loan sales, projects, restructurings and Islamic finance.
Long established relationships with our clients – both borrowers and lenders – means we have an acute awareness of all the typical issues with both sides of commercial transactions. You’ll find the approach of our Finance team is practical and collaborative, with a clear focus on helping you achieve your business objectives.
Areas of expertise
- Acquisition & Leveraged Finance
- Financing of company purchases
- Leveraged buy-outs including management buy-outs and buy-ins
- Refinancing of corporate transactions
- Restructuring
- Venture capital funding
- Asset-Backed-Securities (ABS)
- Expertise across industries and assets
- Securitisations of asset-backed securities (ABS)
- Banking & Finance Disputes
- Bonds, Structured Finance
- Capital investment law
- Capital market law
- Consulting across the entire spectrum of bonds and borrowing programmes (CP, EMTN)
- Convertible and corporate bonds
- Derivatives
- Corporate Finance
- Advice on all types of debt financing (cash pooling, ABS, leasing and trade receivables)
- Advising both borrowers and lenders on secured and unsecured syndicated or bilateral loans
- Financial Restructuring
- Advice on restructurings both inside and outside of formal insolvency proceedings
- Cross-border restructuring
- Design and implementation of corporate and capital structures
- Financial Services
- Investment Funds
- Drafting contractual documents for investment companies including outsourcing contracts, custodian agreements, etc.
- Examining existing (financial) service structures to ensure they meet the requirements under regulatory law
- Structuring, implementing and winding-up investment funds and alternative investment funds
- Project Finance
- Advising on projects across a wide-range of industries including infrastructure, renewable energy, cleantech, etc.
- In-depth experience in advising both project developers and banks
- Real Estate Finance
- Financing of commercial property portfolios and housing portfolios
- Regulatory
- Trade & Receivables Finance
- Commodity-based financing
- Credit/export insurance
- Derivatives
- Letters of credit and guarantees
- Multilateral credit financing
- Venture Loans
- Advising financiers on cross-border transactions
- Contract documentation (preparation of applicable standard documentation for financiers)
- Expertise in advising financiers and corporations
- Providing cost-effective solutions
Banking & Finance Disputes
Financial Services
Regulatory