Banking and finance
Today’s banking and finance transactions require expertise across a broad spectrum of finance. We provide our clients with focused commercial advice delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of finance lawyers who understand their specialist markets and whose depth of experience advising all key stakeholders ensures our advice is balanced, innovative and practical.
We build long-lasting relationships with our clients, earning their trust by consistently demonstrating our understanding of their business needs. We work tirelessly to enhance these relationships, and as a result, our clients turn to us for advice on their largest and most complex financings.
We recognise that we need to bring more to the table than just lawyering and we make a significant investment at the outset with all our clients to understand their business, their people, their strategic objectives and what really matters to them. This enables us to be ambitious for our clients as well as ourselves.
Because financing work rarely focuses on a single jurisdiction, our lawyers are constantly working alongside the world's leading finance firms. This experience, coupled with our independent status, enables us to recommend the right firm for a particular transaction and also gives us the freedom to work with our clients' preferred firms. In either case, we are recognised for our ability to deliver seamless cross-border solutions that reflect local laws, local procedures and local markets.
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"Macfarlanes has an excellent reputation for corporate facilities, leveraged finance and restructurings...It understands all sides of the negotiating table, instilling confidence in clients and attracting notable mid-market deals...'The firm is client-focused and responsive. One of the biggest draws for us is the partner-led contact you get'."
Chambers UK 2011
"Macfarlanes' banking and finance team is able to accommodate clients from all sides of the financial transaction. It typically operates in the mid-market space, attracting a diverse range of clients, from private equity houses to banks and corporate borrowers."
Chambers UK 2012
"Led by 'strong operator' Julian Howard, Macfarlanes LLP's seven-partner team provides 'first-class' advice to a balanced array of lender and borrower clients including 3i, Haymarket Financial, JD Wetherspoon and RBS."
The UK Legal 500 2011