With a finance practice widely lauded for the ‘consistently high level of service and quality delivered throughout the team’, DLA Piper is routinely called upon by a roll-call of banks and financial institutions for a wide variety of transactions, including asset-based lending, venture debt funding, refinancing and restructuring mandates. Large multinationals in the food and drink, real estate, and hospitality sectors are also prevalent in the firm’s diverse client roster. Allan Leal heads up the team and delivers advice to a range of lenders and borrowers and has been particularly active for key client Virgin Money’s Venture Debt team. Also highlighted for his venture debt work, William Reid is well versed in acquisition, leveraged, and real estate finance work. Craig Hunter is recommended for his broad array of capabilities.
Testimonials
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‘We have worked with the DLA team for many years and they always deliver a consistently high quality of care and legal service to us. It is a real pleasure to work with them and they have never let us down. Our deals are a bit different and so we need a legal team that are both legally proficient but also commercial and able to support us.’
‘The DLA team we work with are all consistently excellent and always go above and beyond what is required. A key aspect of DLA is the consistently high level of service and quality delivered throughout the team. The deal team is always very well resourced and always delivers quality within the fast moving time scales required to document and complete our deals.’
Key clients
- Sleeperz Hotels
- Hambro Perks
Work highlights
- Advising on the refinancing of five hotels for UK-based hotel owner-operator, Axcel Hotel Group.
- Advising on the venture debt loan to Essentia Analytics.