Within Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner‘s broad-based commercial lending team, which is led by Emma Howdle-Fuller, the firm advises on a significant and growing volume of ABL work, often handling hybrid matters where the ABL piece sits alongside other debt in the capital stack. Shanan Dunstan is key to this work, regularly advising lenders and sponsors on cross-border deals involving sophisticated ABL structures which feature complex inter-creditor arrangements.

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Key clients

  • Wells Fargo
  • Scotiabank/The Bank of Nova Scotia
  • Factofrance
  • Bank of China (London Branch)

Work highlights

  • Representing Wells Fargo on its billion-dollar global channel financing facilities, which it provides to multinational technology companies such as Cisco Systems, Dell EMC, Dimension Data and TD SYNNEX, throughout EMEA, APAC and North America.
  • Represented Scotiabank on multiple multi-currency and cross-border finance transactions.
  • Representing Factofrance on the implementation and renewal of non-recourse receivables purchase facilities provided by the client to KME Group, a leading global copper processing business listed on the Milan Stock Exchange.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Emma Howdle-Fuller

Other key lawyers

Derek Hrydziuszko, Shanan Dunstan, Daniel Finch