Work Department

Corporate – banking and finance.

Position

Hamish is a partner in the finance and restructuring group and has a broad practice in debt finance and restructuring, including conventional corporate banking, asset finance, receivables finance, derivatives, capital markets, innovative funding structures and funding restructuring and reorganisation. He is also involved in policy, systems, regulatory and opinion work for financial institutions and in law reform with government and other public and private sector stakeholders. Hamish has, in particular, played a leading role throughout his career in the development of market standards and innovations in securitisation, in structured funding using Scottish limited partnerships and in cross-border mechanisms for restructuring and enforcement of debt, through co-ordinated insolvency and otherwise. Hamish’s clients include central institutions, UK clearing bank groups and European, North American, Asian and other financial institutions, funds and other funders as well as borrowers and public bodies. He has a PhD in cross-border security and insolvency and speaks and publishes regularly on finance, security and insolvency issues.

Education

University of Edinburgh (1984 LLB Hons First Class; 1985 Dip LP; 1994 PhD).

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