Operating at the apex of the Scottish financial market, Pinsent Masons LLP offers expertise in project, real estate and leveraged finance, as well as more niche areas of law, such as the LIBOR transition, ring-fencing, and oil and gas reserve-based lending. Team head John Maciver is highly active for lenders, borrowers and other loan market participants, while Richard Scott focuses on acquisition, vessel and real estate finance. The ‘simply outstanding’ Gillian Frew is a specialist energy and infrastructure finance lawyer, with expertise in renewables as well as oil and gas.
Testimonials
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‘From an oil and gas perspective, the Pinsents team in Edinburgh has a real understanding of the industry and is part of that small group of firms that has a genuine depth of experience in oil and gas debt finance, especially with respect to reserved based lending.’
‘Their familiarity with lenders to the oil and gas industry and the other expert firms in the field is invaluable.’
Key clients
- Natwest Group
- Homes England
Work highlights
- Acted for Smart Meter Assets 1 Limited (SMA) in connection with their £545m refinancing of the short-dated debt facilities raised at the time of the acquisition of SMA by Arcus Infrastructure Partners and GLIL Infrastructure in May 2021.
- Advised Horizon Energy Infrastructure Limited, a UK-based smart metering asset provider, in relation to the c.£350m refinancing of their debt facilities put in place at the time of its acquisition by Arcus Infrastructure Partners.