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Laura Collins
Senior Associate

Laura Collins

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Laura is a Senior Associate in the Finance Team and part of the specialist Embedded Finance Team at CMS. 

Laura acts for a range of clients including corporates, banks, funds and private equity sponsors in relation to cross border and domestic syndicated and bilateral funding transactions. She advises on a range of financing transactions such as acquisition lending, corporate lending, leverage finance and real estate finance. 

Laura specialises in tech financing transactions, with a particular focus on fintech, embedded finance and platform lending. She has worked on transactions with the Embedded Finance Team at CMS, including advising on debt-raises and the establishment of embedded finance products (including B2B BNPL, B2C BNPL, lending and payments, revenue-based financing, income share arrangements and embedded insurance). Laura is also a member of the firm’s equIP programme and Fintech Associates group. 

Prior to working at CMS Laura trained and worked within the Banking and Finance Team at another large international law firm. She undertook two secondments at financial institutions, one involving co-ordinating and leading the LIBOR reform project for the UK Legal teams, including feeding into the LMA and Bank of England’s RFR working groups. 

Publications

Lectures list

  • 2023 - University of Salford – lecturer on MSc Financial Technology (FinTech) 
  • 2022 - UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) – lecturer on IP Transactions: Law and Practice 

Education

  • 2017 – LPC, BPP Law School, London.
  • 2016 – LL.B, University of York, York.

Insights by Laura

Revenue based financing and responsible lending

31 Mar 2023 1 min read

Embedded finance: market challenges and market changes

30 Dec 2022 1 min read

Embedded finance: key considerations for funders of platform borrowers

30 Sep 2022 1 min read

CMS advises on investment in technology solutions provider WSD

21 Apr 2022 2 min read
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