Finlay Leggat

Senior Associate

About

Finlay acts for financial institutions and corporates on a range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions.

Finlay advises credit funds, alternative lenders and banks on cross-border and domestic leveraged finance, speciality finance, fund finance and private wealth finance.

He has experience of secondments to a leading hedge fund and major UK banking group.

Finlay has a strong presence in the litigation funding and legal assets space and co-leads the Firm's Legal Assets Funding Group.

He is dual qualified in England and Wales and Scotland.

Experience

  • Advising a credit fund on several cross-border leveraged financings.
  • Acting for a credit fund on the leveraged financing of a public to private transaction.
  • Acting for a credit fund on a mezzanine financing of a UK construction group.
  • Acting for a US hedge fund in funding claims in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and High Court.
  • Advising a credit fund on a high value financing of a UK law firm.
  • Acting for a European hedge fund on litigation funding for a bondholder group.
  • Advising several family offices on fund finance facilities and lombard loans.

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