Acting on its own as well as able to leverage the firm’s impressive international footprint, Dentons advises a lender-focused client base on domestic and cross-border new money and refinancing deals, utilising the full suite of ABL techniques. Key practitioners include Ian Clements, who regularly employs ABL techniques as part of his broader structured trade and commodity finance offering, and Glasgow-based Stuart Fitzsimmons, who handles ABL work, including within the whisky space, as part of his wide-ranging finance practice. Former team head Simon Prendergast joined Mills & Reeve LLP in May 2024.
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Key clients
- HSBC Bank
- NatWest
- ING Bank N.V.
- Blazehill Capital Finance Limited
Work highlights
- Advising Blazehill Capital Finance Ltd on a $55m ABL facility to the UK and US subsidiaries of Jain International Foods, a global processor and supplier of food products with its headquarters in India.
- Advising a leading global bank in respect of the £46m receivables and inventory finance facilities refinancing of asset-based lending facilities to the Ralawise Group.
- Advising ING Bank N.V. together with a syndicate of international banks on the refinancing of a secured uncommitted borrowing base facility based on Green Loan Principles and made available to TrailStone Renewables GmbH.