Led from London by Steve Mackie  and also able to leverage strong regional resources, including Manchester and Leeds, Addleshaw Goddard provides a cost-effective and solutions-oriented service to lenders providing financing to corporates in bilateral, club and syndicated contexts. The firm’s clearing bank relationships continue to inform much of the corporate lending work, particularly in the mid-market space, however, it has also continued to gain traction among commercial/international banks, which are attracted to the firm’s ability to advise on transactions incorporating a range of financing techniques, including ABL and structured finance. Amanda Gray , who co-heads the financial services sector, is adept at advising lenders and borrowers across a range of debt products, and has also been at the forefront of the firm's efforts on the ESG and sustainable finance front.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘They understand our business and can be flexible in terms of giving some advice before formal engagement. The implementation throughout is very smooth. Any issue could be discussed transparently.’

  • ‘Lequn Su is a star partner. He is very diligent and has lots of insight so beyond your case you can also learn the latest update.'

Key clients

  • Aareal Bank
  • AgFe
  • AIB Group UK plc
  • Al Rayan
  • Aviva
  • Bank of Communications
  • Bank of Ireland
  • Bank of London & The Middle East plc
  • Bayerische Landesbank
  • British Arab Commercial Bank
  • Canada Life Investments
  • China CITIC Bank
  • China Merchants Bank
  • CIMB (London, Singapore and Malaysia)
  • Clydesdale Bank plc (part of Virgin Money)
  • Coutts & Co
  • Criterion Capital
  • Deutsche Hypothekenbank
  • Emirates NBD Bank
  • Europa Capital Debt Investment
  • First Abu Dhabi Bank
  • Fortwell Capital
  • Gaw Capital Group
  • GR Properties
  • Haitong Bank
  • Hamburg Commercial Bank
  • Handelsbanken plc/ Svenska Handelsbanken

Work highlights

  • Acted for COFCO on a $1.6bn sustainability-linked term loan with a consortium of 30 banks.
  • Advised HSBC UK Bank as document co-ordinator and agent for a syndicate of six lenders in connection with $250m loan facilities to CentralNic Group Plc.
  • Acted for the document and ESG Co-ordinators on the £900m eight funder syndicated unsecured facility to Places for People Treasury.

Lawyers

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Steve Mackie

Other key lawyers

Amanda Gray, Alex Dumphy, Peter Crichton, Ewen Scott, Lequn Su, Natalie Hewitt, Sarah Stokes, Cerys Poolis