Our banking and financial services team offers specialist advice and assistance across a broad range of areas, including:
- Lending by banks and other financial institutions (including due diligence investigations and reports)
- Borrowing by corporate, commercial, institutional, local government and private clients
- Guarantees, indemnities and bonds
- Special asset finance - including finance leases, operating leases and conditional purchases
- Real estate finance - private or commercial, including preparation of standard loan and security documents for banks and other lenders
- Restructuring and insolvency advice to accountants, receivers, liquidators, banks and distressed companies
- Financial regulation - advising financial service intermediaries (including advisors and brokers) on compliance with financial services legislation
- Advice on compliance with legislation including the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003, the Companies Act 1993, the Personal Properties Securities Act 1999 and the Receiverships Act 1993
- Advising Liquidator and Receivers
- Voidable preference claims
- Enforcement of securities and guarantees
- Advice on personal insolvency and bankruptcy
- Claims by liquidators against directors and former employees
- Restructuring advice
