Banking & Finance

Michael Hanley is the Head of the firm’s Banking and Finance team. He advises on a broad range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions. His primary focus is acting for corporate, mid-cap, SME borrowers, banks, and direct funders on leveraged/acquisition finance and dry and development real estate finance transactions. Michael and his team have extensive experience in restructuring and portfolio/bilateral off-market loan sales and acquisitions.

Experience Leveraged/Acquisition finance - acting for borrowers (supporting the corporate department), banks and direct funders on cross border and domestic M & A transactions. Corporate, mid-cap and SME finance - Michael and his team are actively involved in this area assisting companies, partnerships and individuals with all forms of corporate secured lending, capex, term loans, acquisition finance and other business debt requirements. They also have extensive experience of dealing with and acting for the established main clearing and lending banks, major direct funder participants in the market on both domestic and cross-border facilities. Real Estate Finance - Michael's team has extensive experience advising domestic and international borrowers and lending institutions on domestic commercial and in recent times a specific focus on residential development finance involving private, PRS and social and affordable residential projects. Loan Sales/Acquisitions - Michael has managed and participated in multi-departmental teams on loan sale projects involving large portfolio sales and bi-lateral off market sales and acquisitions, acting for vendors and bidders/acquirers. Regulatory Advice – Michael and his team primarily assist in-house counsel and principals in banks, fintechs and direct funders entering and participating in the Irish transactional financing market.

Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Member of the Law Society of Ireland Business Law Committee Brexit Working Group

Partner

Bachelor of Arts - National University of Ireland Maynooth Diploma Financial Regulation – City Colleges Diploma Legal Studies - Dublin Institute of Technology Diploma Corporate Governance - Law Society of Ireland Diploma Finance Law - Law Society of Ireland Professional qualification as a solicitor, Law Society of Ireland, 2002.