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Macfarlanes LLP

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Although Macfarlanes LLP remains best-known for its mid-market leveraged finance private credit expertise, it also handles a fairly sizeable volume of borrower side corporate lending mandates. Key to the firm's success on this front is 'tour de force' Kirstie Hutchinson, who regularly services the finance needs of large investment grade corporates, particularly when there is a high degree of contractual complexity involved. Andrew Perkins heads up the overarching banking and finance team.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Kirstie Hutchinson remains a tour de force in this sector.'

Key clients

  • Binder Beteiligungs AG
  • Hyve Group Plc
  • Pollen, Inc
  • RedCat Debt Company Limited
  • Liberation Group Limited
  • Isio Group Limited
  • Silverfleet/Riviera Travel
  • August Equity

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Kirstie Hutchinson

Kirstie Hutchinson

Macfarlanes LLP

Kirstie acts for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and issuers, credit fund and bank lenders, special situations investors and speciality finance providers on a range of financing transactions including investment grade, hybrid and leveraged financings and acquisition financings, dividend recapitalisations and capital restructurings. She has extensive domestic, European and global cross-border experience. Kirstie is a member of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association and of the British-German Jurists Association. She is ranked by Chambers & Partners and by Legal 500 2021 as a “Leading Individual” for both “Acquisition Finance” and “Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans”; and was named in “The Lawyer” magazine’s “Hot 100 2021” as “one of the City’s go-to banking and finance lawyers for private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds”.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andrew Perkins

Other key lawyers

Kirstie Hutchinson, Malcolm Hitching, Adam Caines