Banking

Our team advises on a wide range of finance and banking transactions, providing advice to both borrowers and lenders on a broad spectrum of banking issues.

We have advised clients on structuring, negotiating and documenting complex finance deals in various areas, including secured and unsecured general banking, acquisition/leveraged finance, property finance and trade finance.  We also work on the restructuring of existing debt facilities.

Representative transactions – our lawyers have advised:

• RosVodokanal, a major Russian utilities company in relation to entering into a RUB 1.5 billion loan agreement with the EBRD, secured by charges over shares in the borrower’s subsidiaries and a guarantee;

• a major brewer on the proposed sell-down of its pub loan portfolio (involved complex issues regarding the transfer of security interests);

• a Russian media company on drafting and negotiating a multi-million GBP loan facility agreement between its subsidiary and a UK-based media start-up, together with various ancillary documents, including security over intellectual property rights;

• an investor to an Internet start-up on drafting and negotiating a multi-million GBP facility agreement secured by a guarantee and debenture over various assets of the borrower’s group companies, including intellectual property rights and shares of the group companies;

• SG Hambros Bank Limited (part of the Société Générale group) on the banking aspects of its acquisition of ABN AMRO’s London-based private banking business (which had approximately €1 billion under management); and

• a British luxury fashion house on its £200 million multicurrency revolving credit facility and a further two £30 million facilities – acting for the fashion house.