Our debt finance practice advises on international and domestic loans (including acquisition finance and real estate finance), project finance, securitisation and capital markets as well as on corporate recovery matters.
We offer a comprehensive service to a client base that is well-balanced between borrowers and lenders.
Clients recognise our practice for the genuinely wide perspective we bring to transactions, our strong transaction management and our ability to handle demanding transactional structuring issues.
Our European finance capability is a key growth area for us which we have developed in close conjunction with our Alliance partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe.
A core part of our strategy is to further the internationalisation of our practices in the key growth regions of India, Russia/CIS and the Middle East. We have recently opened an office in Dubai to support our efforts in the Middle East.
We see our ability to draw on strong litigation/contentious support as being particularly important where a financing is being conducted in difficult circumstances.
"Structured trade finance expert Jason Fox heads Herbert Smith LLP's ambitious and expanding banking practice"
Legal 500 2007
"Winning plaudits for being 'sensible in negotiations', its lawyers appear to be capitalising on a market that is shifting... towards a more collaborative style of deal doing"
Chambers UK 2008
"The firm has a strong emerging markets practice, which was boosted by the opening of the firm’s Dubai practice"
Legal 500 2007