Active across a host of financing mandates including project finance, real estate finance, refinancing and restructuring mandates, and receivable purchase facilities, the team at Morton Fraser MacRoberts provides ‘exceptional legal guidance combined with commerciality and first-class communication and service’, acting for lenders and borrowers across the UK and beyond. Beverley Wood and Norman Martin head up the team and are highly reputed for their respective asset based lending and corporate finance expertise. The ’very experienced, pragmatic and responsive’ Andrew Meakin is principally noted for his strong work in the real estate sector, while Ross Caldwell, who also possesses real estate financing capabilities, is well-positioned to advise on leveraged and acquisition finance transactions. Billy Kay joined the firm from Burness Paull LLP in November 2023, adding further project finance expertise, while Lauren Hart enjoys close connections to a number of clearing and challenger banks.
Testimonials
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‘Our ongoing workflow is handled both quickly and more importantly, commercially. There is always a need to balance the needs of the client and the desire to complete the underlying contract, and the advice remains always on ensuring both can be satisfactorily achieved.’
‘Exceptional legal guidance combined with commerciality and first-class communication and service makes Morton Fraser MacRoberts a key partner to our business as a principal lender.’
Key clients
- Spire Global, Inc.
- DNB
Work highlights
- Acted as Scots counsel for Canada Life managed debt funds in the provision of a £148m 16-year term loan facility to LXi REIT plc secured on a portfolio of 50 properties in the UK, seven of which were situated in Scotland.
- Acted for DNB in relation to Scottish aspects of additional facilities of CAN$100m being made available to the Cooke Aquaculture Group - total loan facilities now exceed CAN$1bn.