Banking and finance
‘Cross-border transactions are a particular specialism, with Africa a key growth market for the team…Commentators praise the firm as “absolutely superb, helpful, commercial, a delight and a pleasure to work with” and appreciate that “when something goes wrong they are great at picking things up.”’
Chambers UK, 2013
Our global banking and finance team maintains a leading reputation for complex, cross-border transactions for the world’s most prominent financial institutions. Excelling in a number of jurisdictions, our 700 lawyer team delivers commercially focused, seamless advice across Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Asia.
We have one of the longest histories of any legal practice in the banking and finance field, advising a number of major banks, finance providers, export credit agencies (ECAs) and other participants in the global banking and finance arena, as well as corporate and sovereign entities.
Our banking and finance team offers particular expertise in our key industries: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining & commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
We deliver:
- Experience of advising all ten of the world’s largest banks by revenue; we are on the panel of more than 60 major financial institutions around the world and act for the biggest development banks in the world’s fastest emerging markets.
- The benefit of working with a multidisciplinary international legal practice; we can draw upon the expertise of our global lawyers in the fields of corporate, litigation and dispute resolution, tax, capital markets, and other practice areas, to provide a full-service approach to each finance matter.
Our areas of work include:
Our recent work:
- Acted as international counsel to Bank of America, N.A., as administrative and collateral agent and as lender, in connection with the establishment of asset based credit facilities in the aggregate amount of US$1.25 billion in favour of McJunkin Red Man Corporation and other related entities.
- Advising the finance parties on a US$4.1 billion funding for the development of the Surgil gas field and a state-of-the-art gas chemical complex in Karakalpakstan, Republic of Uzbekistan that will produce petrochemical products such as high density polyethylene and high density polypropylene.
- Advised on the US$1.2 billion expansion of Madinah Airport, the first full PPP in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We advised the sponsors, TAV Havalimanlari Holding A.S, Saudi Oger Limited and Al Rajhi Holdings (the TIBAH Consortium) on the financing and construction of Madinah Airport in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Awards and accolades:
- Legal House of the year - Global Transport Finance 2012, 2011 and 2010
- Aviation Law Firm of the Year - Airline Economics 2012
- Best Commodity/Trade Finance Law Firm, 2012 and 2011- Trade Finance Awards for Excellence
- Energy and Natural Resources Law Firm of the Year, 2012 -Islamic Finance News (IFN) Awards Law Poll
- African Renewables Deal of the Year, 2012 (Addax Bioenergy) -Project Finance Magazine
- African Telecoms Deal of the Year, 2012 (Etisalat Nigeria) -Project Finance Magazine
- Project finance Deal of the Year, 2012 (Anshan Iron and Steel Company Limited) - Australasian Legal Busines
- African Mining deal of the Year, 2012 (Boseto Copper Mine) - Project Finance Magazine Awards
- Islamic Finance Deal of the Year 2012 - Asian Legal Business 2012
- European Biomass Deal of the Year 2012 - Project Finance magazine