Specialist funders and services Solicitors

Specialist Funders and Services
We advise the specialist finance sector on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues, always looking beyond the purely legal view to give genuinely commercial and strategic advice.

Providers of specialist funding and those providing specialist services to the financial sector, based both in the UK and overseas, often call on us for help with a wide variety of transactions and advice. These clients range from credit funds, invoice discounters, equipment lessors, fintechs and specialist mortgage lenders to corporate trustees and custodians, corporate service providers and operators of financial markets.

To do this, we assemble teams of sector specialists that offer a wide range of legal expertise. That combination of legal knowledge and sector experience enables us to offer practical and specific advice that finds paths towards commercial solutions, even if – especially if – this requires some innovative thinking.

And because this breadth of experience gives us a wider perspective, we can identify trends across the sector, and give you a view that enhances your own strategic planning.

Our experience includes advising on:

Online supply chain finance
Fund finance
Oil, gas and clean energy finance
High-net-worth lending
Innovation opportunities for asset and receivables finance from legal reform
Recovery of leased assets
Enforcement and restructuring for security trustees
Distressed financing, restructuring and workout
Expansion of the regulatory perimeter to likes of funeral plans and buy-now-pay-later
Ensuring operations do not inadvertently cross regulatory perimeter
Payment systems
Netting and collateral rules for financial markets counterparties
Warehousing and other treasury transactions for growing fintechs
Optimising capital structures for regulated entities
Joint ventures between fintechs and banks
Acquisition, merger and reorganisation of specialist financial sector businesses
IT, IP, data and procurement for new systems
Employment, benefits and senior management issues for growing funders

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Hamish Patrick

Partner and Head of Financial Sector

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Specialist Funders and ServicesWe advise the specialist finance sector on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues, always looking beyond the purely legal view to give genuinely commercial and strategic advice.

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Peter Alderdice

Matt Andrews

Fiona Buchanan

James Bulpitt

Neil Campbell

Christopher Clark

Neil Cowan

Leonore Dupont

Cath Macrae

Ben Pilbrow

Tom Swan

Iain Wishart

Hamish Patrick

Hamish Patrick

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Specialist Funders and Services
We advise the specialist finance sector on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues, always looking beyond the purely legal view to give genuinely commercial and strategic advice.