Commercial Banks Solicitors

Commercial Banks
Our teams of sector-specialists bring together all the legal expertise required to help our commercial bank clients with a wide range of transactions and strategic projects.


We’ve been working with commercial banks for many years. This experience gives us a real commercial understanding of the sector, the challenges our clients are facing, and the opportunities they are pursuing.

Whether we’re advising on a transaction or a more general project, we assemble a team with all the necessary legal specialisms. And because we can view things from our clients’ perspectives, we offer clear advice that’s informed by our market-knowledge as much as our legal expertise.

Our experience includes advising on:

  • Mainstream business and corporate banking
  • Regulation
  • Project finance (including energy and infrastructure)
  • Real estate finance
  • Leveraged finance
  • Asset-based lending
  • Asset and receivables finance
  • Supply chain finance
  • Fund finance
  • Structured finance
  • Capital markets
  • Private banking
  • Islamic finance
  • Hotels and leisure
  • Agricultural finance
  • Oil and gas
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Dispute resolution focused on specialist finance issues and debt recovery
  • Pensions
  • Competition law
  • Employment
  • IT
  • Intellectual property
  • Procurement
  • Outsourcing

Peter Alderdice

Director

Matt Andrews

Senior Solicitor

Patrick Bell

Partner

Fiona Buchanan

Partner and Head of Banking and Finance

James Bulpitt

Senior Associate

Neil Campbell

Director

Christopher Clark

Senior Associate

Neil Cowan

Partner

Leonore Dupont

Director

Clare Foster

Head of Clean Energy and Partner

Deborah Miller

Consultant

Ben Pilbrow

Partner

Iain Wishart

Partner

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Moveable transactions – Scotland v England: Round 1 – Assigning receivables

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The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 will bring Scots law up to date and will arguably move it ahead of the law south of the border, but is this the case when assigning receivables?

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