Find Lawyers in the United Kingdom for Banking and Finance Law

Zoë Ashcroft is an international corporate and finance lawyer, one of the founding partners of the London office of international law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, Head of the UK Corporate & Finance Team and a member of the Winston & Strawn global Executive Committee. She has more than 25 years of experience handling the legal aspects of complex cross-border corporate and finance deals for a broad range of corporate clients, with a particular focus on clients who are either oper...

Trevor Borthwick is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office. He represents banks and borrowers on large and complex financing arrangements, debt special situations and restructurings across a wide variety of sectors.

Stuart Brinkworth is the head of Leveraged Finance in Europe and a partner in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office. He has a wealth of experience spanning over 200 deals in the mid-market having been a partner in the City since 2006. He focuses on acting for UK and international lenders (including credit and debt funds), sponsors and sponsor-backed portfolio companies on a variety of UK, European and cross-border leveraged finance transactions, including private equity-back...

Lee Federman has represented financial institutions, direct lenders, hedge funds, financial sponsors, and corporates in complex event-driven financing transactions for more than 15 years. His domestic and cross-border experience includes advising on leveraged and other structured financings, including infrastructure financings, bank/bond financings, margin loans, and subordinated debt financings.

Mark Fine focuses his practice on complex debt financing transactions for private equity houses, borrowers and lenders including direct lending, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated lending, junior debt issuances, high yield offerings, special situations, distressed debt trading, portfolio acquisitions and restructurings. Mark has previously held the position of European General Counsel at Bain Capital Credit in London.

Lord Grabiner is a commercial lawyer with a substantial court, arbitration and advisory practice. For over 40 years he has been involved in many of the highest profile commercial disputes that have been fought in London. Specialising in banking & finance, energy/oil and gas, civil fraud, competition and merger investigations and shareholder disputes, Lord Grabiner is highly experienced both as an advocate in the High Court and as arbitration counsel. He also sits as an arbitrator in domes...

Dominic Griffiths is the Managing Partner of the London office and co-heads the global Banking & Finance practice. He represents financial institutions and companies across a broad spectrum of domestic and international financing transactions. His practice is particularly focused on commercial and investment bank asset-based lending and structured finance. Dominic has in-depth experience with regard to European and Trans-Atlantic cross-border secured loans and trade receivables financings...

Abradat Kamalpour has extensive experience in fintech, structured finance, debt capital markets, and financing for investors and institutions from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. He has been at the forefront of using blockchain-based technologies and cryptocurrencies on various transactions, including building out blockchain-based exchanges, tokenization platforms, and digital asset issuances, as well as the creation and legal build-out of cryptocurrencies, crypto-based payment syst...

Mr. Kandel has extensive experience leading leveraged, special situations and acquisition finance and restructuring matters under English and U.S. law, and is considered one of the leading acquisition finance lawyers in London.Significantly, he brings to bear an unusually broad depth of experience beyond his core focus area, having had experience over the years in high-yield and debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, securitization, derivatives, margin loans, fund finance, investment...

Paul Lyons is a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group and co-chair of the London office. Mr. Lyons focuses primarily on real estate debt finance, where he has significant experience in advising both borrowers and lenders at all levels of the capital stack. He has extensive experience in leveraged finance and his work has included advising banks on debt originations and restructurings as well as real estate and private equity fund clients on both lender and borrower mandates.

Emma L. Menzies focuses her practice on all types of finance, including general syndicated lending, leveraged finance, project finance and restructurings and workouts. Emma has acted for a wide range of financial institutions, creditor groups, borrowers and other stakeholders. She undertakes a broad range of work, including leveraged finance, restructurings and syndicated loans. Emma is recommended by both of the leading independent guides to the legal industry. According Chambers & Partn...

Neil Micklethwaite has over 25 years of experience in handling complex litigation and regulatory investigations. He acts for international corporations, asset managers and hedge funds, as well as representing UHNW individuals in large scale litigation cases and in defending regulatory investigations both in the U.K. and worldwide. Neil has extensive experience in complex disputes concerning the Russian Federation and other CIS states and in devising asset protection strategies to defend the i...

Mark's practice covers cross border inward investment, syndicated lending, structured export credit finance, structured trade and commodity finance, debt restructurings and asset finance. Mark is recognized in The Legal 500 UK as "excelling" in structured export credit transactions and is praised for his "commercial and user-friendly approach."Mark advises on ESG financings including hospitals, clean energy and transportation.Mark also advises on financial crime, modern slavery, bribery and c...

GRAHAM PENN’s practice focuses on all aspects of structured finance, particularly securitization, in which he is recognized as a preeminent authority. He has advised clients on many landmark transactions since joining the firm as a partner over 25 years ago.Graham acts for a wide range of clients, including arrangers, trustees, lenders, originators, servicers/special servicers, investors, and rating agencies. More recently he has increasingly acted for alternate credit and capital provi...

Jane Rogers is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s finance group in London, a member of the firm’s policy committee and a former co-head of the firm’s global finance practice. She focuses on private equity and debt financing transactions and was previously based in the Boston office before relocating to London in 2010.Jane regularly represents corporations and private equity funds in a variety of financing transactions, including high yield debt offerings, syndicated credit faci...

Ravi Amin is a senior associate in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office. Ravi focuses on a number of areas of banking and finance law. He has gained experience in a wide range of complex, cross-border and domestic financing transactions, including receivables financing and asset based lending transactions, as well as leveraged finance and trade finance transactions. Ravi represents banks, financial institutions, sponsors and corporates. Ravi joined Mayer Brown in 2015.

Chris Knight’s asset finance practice focuses on acting for lessors, banks, funds, export credit agencies and airlines on a wide range of high-value, cross-border aircraft and engine finance transactions. Cited by clients in Chambers UK (2020) as “extremely responsive, diligent and a pleasure to work with,” and in Chambers UK (2021) as “knowledgeable, professional and approachable” and “very hard-working…and implementation orientated”, Chris&rs...