Banking and finance
Our range of services includes:
- Acquisition and leveraged finance: Advising senior lenders, mezzanine lenders, PIK lenders, sponsors, corporates and issuers on all aspects of acquisition financing including corporate acquisitions, private equity backed buy-outs and public takeovers.
- Mezzanine finance: Advising financial institutions, mezzanine funds and debt investors as lenders and investors in mezzanine and subordinated debt and advising senior lenders, private equity sponsors and borrowers/issuers on using mezzanine and subordinated debt as part of their capital structures.
- Fund finance: Advising lenders and funds on all aspects of fund financings including leveraged facilities, investor call bridges, pre-close bridge facilities, equity bridges and warehouse facilities.
- Restructuring and insolvency: Advising financial institutions, distressed debt and special opportunities funds, insolvency office holders, businesses and other key stakeholders on corporate reorganisations, "loan-to-own", distressed M&A, debt restructurings and re-scheduling and formal insolvency procedures.
- Corporate lending: Advising leading multinational corporations on existing and new financings.
- Asset based finance: Advising corporates on all elements of asset based finance, including invoice and receivables finance, equipment finance, leasing and syndicated asset based lending facilities.
- Real estate finance: Advising lenders, investors, property companies and developers on all types of real estate financings including investments, developments and opco/propco structured financing transactions.
- Loan investment: Advising investors on all aspects of primary and secondary par and distressed loan investments.
- Derivatives and structured finance: Advising financial institutions, corporate clients and high-net-worth individuals on complex and bespoke financial instruments from swaps and options to credit derivatives, commodity and energy securities and other complex tradable instruments.
- Financial services regulation: Advising financial institutions and other investment businesses both on investigations by regulatory bodies, such as the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the DTI, and related proceedings and on all aspects of compliance including FSA and other regulations, authorisation for new regulated businesses, MiFID, CRD, anti-money laundering and conflicts of interest.
- Litigation and dispute resolution: Advising financial institutions and investment funds on a wide range of banking and financial marketsrelated problems and disputes, including trade finance, derivatives, fraud, asset tracing and recovery, and search and seizure processes.
- Private banking: Advising clients ranging from wealthy families and professional trustees to successful entrepreneurs, charities, private banks and financial institutions on all financing matters and all aspects of private wealth management.
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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