Bevan Brittan LLP

Bevan Brittan LLP

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Louise Leaver

Louise Leaver

Louise is a specialist housing finance lawyer and is recognised for providing commercial and pragmatic advice to clients. She has been acting for borrowers and lenders for over 20 years, and represents a broad range of clients including corporate borrowers, registered providers, charitable entities, property developers, banks and institutional investors. She has experience advising on all types of loan agreements, security documentation, intercreditor and security trust arrangements, swap transactions and capital market issues. Louise specialises in supporting and advising clients in the social housing sector to raise funds, whether through short-term revolving credit facilities or longer-term private placements and bond issuance. She also advises on development finance, acquisition finance, off-balance sheet delivery models, joint venture arrangements and restructurings. She used her experience acting for borrowers and lenders to evolve and document new funding structures. Recent Experience o Advising a leading housing association on the first unsecured revolving credit facility in the social housing sector. o Lead lawyer advising a large London housing association on their debut US private placement with a novel mix of secured and unsecured tranches. o Acting for institutional investors in relation to over £1billion of private placements. o Supporting a large housing association through a £250m bond issuance, merger and subsequent group restructure and related refinancing. o Lead lawyer advising a large G15 housing association on structuring their PRS portfolio and accessing funding through the PRS Government Guarantee scheme. o Advising a G15 housing association on their role in a large regeneration project structured through a contractual joint venture with a nationwide developer.
Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw is a partner in the firm’s Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects (IERP) team, and has more than 20 years’ experience in energy law. He advises major players throughout the international energy sector on energy transition matters (e.g. hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, CCUS and DAC), renewables (e.g. wind, solar, BESS and geothermal), petrochemicals, and conventional oil, gas and LNG projects and transactions. Andrew is deeply experienced in commercial contracts across the energy value chain, advising on engineering, design, supply, transportation, installation, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning agreements, as well as technology licensing and commodity sale and purchase agreements (including feedstock and offtake), and advises many international companies on strategy in this area. Andrew has worked on such matters across Europe, North America, Latin America, the C.I.S, Africa, the Middle East, China, South and Southeast Asia, Australia and the Arctic.