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Financial Institutions Lending lawyers

In utilising debt finance, financial institutions face regulatory and administrative constraints that can make it difficult to align the interests of lenders, borrowers and other interested parties. Our Financial Institutions Lending team acts for banks, alternative lenders, insurers, brokers, private equity houses, fund managers and pension funds to implement funding structures that fit in with their business goals.

We use our legal, commercial and technical know-how to structure and document complex debt finance transactions in these highly regulated markets, calling on the expertise of colleagues within the UK and the CMS international network in specialisms such as taxation and regulation.

Our lawyers advise on facilities agreements, security and guarantee documentation and intercreditor arrangements in the financial institutions area. They engage globally with our corporate funds, insurance, consumer credit, taxation, financial regulation, infrastructure, real estate and other teams which bring to bear their specific sector expertise in satisfying lenders’ requirements regarding underlying agreements, reports, legal opinions and further documentation.

As a consequence, our work on specialist transactions such as investor call bridge and subscription facilities, double leverage financings, co-investment facilities and funds at Lloyd’s’ transactions, in addition to more usual liquidity and acquisition financings, is well known in financial institutions lending markets in which we have grown solid, long-standing relationships with clients who consistently turn to us for advice.

 
Tom Pullar
Thomas Pullar
Associate
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Tom is an Associate in the Corporate and Leveraged Finance Team in Edinburgh. Tom advises lenders, borrowers and sponsors on all aspects of corporate and leveraged financings including acquisition finance...
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Euan Reid
Associate
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
Euan is an Associate in the Banking team. He acts for a range of clients including corporates, banks, funds and private equity sponsors in relation to cross border and domestic syndicated and bilateral...
Paul Edmondson
Paul Edmondson
Consultant
United Kingdom, London
Paul is a Consultant in our Financial Services team. He has over 30 years’ experience advising financial institutions on a range of regulatory and transactional matters with a particular focus on the...
Mike Munro
Mike Munro
Consultant
United Kingdom, London
Mike Munro is a consultant that works with the CMS Financial Services and Products team, specialising in transactional (re)insurance and alternative risk transfer. He works with a diverse range of financial...
Darren Craig
Darren Craig
Office Managing Partner
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Darren Craig, Managing Partner in CMS Edinburgh, is a partner in the Banking & Finance Group and also heads up the Scottish Property Finance team. He has experience of all forms of property and real estate...
Marianne Mudd
Marianne Mudd
Senior Knowledge Counsel
United Kingdom, London
Marianne is the lead professional support lawyer for the banking teams in our Finance Group. Marianne has led the knowledge team assisting the transactional banking teams in CMS since 2019.  Prior to...
Alan Nelson
Alan Nelson
Office Managing Partner
United Kingdom, Glasgow
Alan Nelson is the Managing Partner of CMS Glasgow and a very experienced IT and information lawyer. He has advised a large number of public and private sector bodies on a variety of IT, outsourcing deals...