PwC LLP

Banking Law

Annalie Croney is a solicitor and partner and leads PwC’s UK Legal Banking team.

Annalie has over 14 years of experience in advising borrowers and lenders alike on new financing arrangements, re-financings and bank consents in connection with reorganisations and restructurings, focusing on property finance and development finance transactions. She also advises on general corporate, leveraged and acquisition finance transactions.

Annalie has a broad practice, also drafting cash pooling product documentation for financial institutions and intra-group cash pooling, netting and other treasury management documentation for large international and domestic corporate groups, as well as advising on consumer credit regulation.

Annalie has recently advised on an increasing number of green and sustainability linked loan facilities, leveraging the expertise that PwC has within our extensive multidisciplinary ESG network.  She has been very active recently advising both borrowers and lenders alike in respect of LIBOR transition for their loan documentation and processes and on new SONIA linked financing transactions.

Annalie acted for Lazari Investments on their £400,000,000 new facility with Allianz Debt Fund SCSp SICAV-SIF secured against five prime central London offices. This was Allianz’s largest single- loan debt transaction in Europe to date, and one of the largest bilateral private borrower deals in the UK market in 2020. This deal won Real Estate Capital’s award for UK Financing Deal of the Year 2020.