Paris Smith LLP

We have market leading financial lawyers who have industry-specific experience and a clear understanding of today’s business environment.

Our Banking & Finance Department can assist in the following areas:

• Asset finance
• Leveraged finance
• Real estate finance
• Project finance
• General corporate lending and borrowing

Advising lenders

• Santander UK plc in connection with the provision of term loan, invoice finance and supply chain finance facilities to The DB Food Group Limited;
• HSBC Bank plc on its financing of the leveraged management buyout of a specialist engineering business in the petro-chemical sector using LMA-based documentation;
• Interbay Funding Ltd on its largest acquisition financings, such as a £19m facility to a borrower in order to finance its acquisition of 130+ residential properties in London (which had to be completed within a month).

Advising borrowers

• Corrotherm International Limited on the refinancing of its existing NatWest and RBS debt facilities by Clydesdale Bank plc, with a term loan, multi-currency overdraft facility, a forward forex facility, a performance bond / guarantee facility, an import / letter of credit facility and a confidential invoice discounting facility;
• Richmond Cars Limited on £22m of term loans in order to facilitate the expansion of its Hyundai car dealership business and its acquisition of The Sparshatts group;
• Haskins Garden Centers Limited on a £22.5m refinance funded by HSBC Bank plc.