Banking & Finance

Our Banking & Finance team has the capability to handle a wide variety of financing transactions and disputes, acting for a core client base of banks, financial institutions, corporate borrowers, fund managers, corporate trustees, individuals and pension funds. A significant part of our work involves advising on international transactions with a cross-border element and the practice is truly diverse in terms of expertise and experience.

We advise on acquisition financing, real estate finance (both investment and development),  investment funds, private equity investment, hedging, securitisation, project finance (including renewable energy financing) receivables financing and structured finance. Our team also has experience in advising on the contingent asset arrangements for final salary pensions schemes, working alongside our Pensions group, and on complex regulatory matters, acting alongside our Regulatory group.

Our Banking & Finance team also has one of the most respected finance litigation teams in the City, specialising in claims in the investment banking and fund management area, with extensive experience in acting for institutional investors seeking redress from large investment banks, funds and other financial institutions.

Selected directory listings

• "The team is absolutely 'first-class,' 'really superb' and 'absolutely exceptional,' and that it 'provides a fantastic service for clients'" - Chambers UK 2013
• "Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has developed a strong practice acting for investors and corporates seeking to recover losses against banks…and also has expertise in inter-bank disputes" - Chambers UK 2012
• "Tom Hibbert [is] one of the small handful of litigation lawyers in London who understand how complex financial instruments like synthetic CDOs and other structured notes work’" - The Legal 500, 2010 edition

For more information on transactional finance, please contact Gwyneth Macaulay (gwyneth.macaulay@rpc.co.uk). For more information on finance litigation, please contact Tom Hibbert  (tom.hibbert@rpc.co.uk)