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Shoosmiths LLP

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The ‘strong team of very capable lawyers’ at Shoosmiths LLP dispenses advice to a diverse client base of domestic and international corporate borrowers, private equity houses, and funds seeking to invest overseas. Alexandra Tiptree leads the Thames Valley-based team with her broad knowledge of leverage finance work, often advising borrowers and lenders on structured finance transactions, while the ‘calm and considered’ Rebecca Mauleverer is particularly adept at handling matters concerning corporate lending. Sarah Fairweather has moved to Jaffa & Co.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Precise, proactive and responsive are three qualities which this team has in buckets. They excel in tackling complex transactions with lots of moving parts and bringing all pieces together at the right time.'
  • 'Ali Tiptree offers grounded legal advice.'
  • 'Rebecca Mauleverer has pulled together a strong team of very capable lawyers. Rebecca herself is great to have on-deal. She has seen it all and brings a calm and considered head to transactions. She is solution-minded, without taking her eye off the legal risks and ensuring these are covered off.'
  • 'An experienced team of banking professionals able to guide clients through the complexities of banking documentation.'
  • 'Callum Larkin is a high quality solicitor with a calm and considered approach that belies his age.'
  • 'The team have a vast amount of experience. They are pro-active with their advice and keep me appraised throughout a process, breaking certain aspects down.'
  • 'Team are always on hand to give advice, check understanding, and also be flexible when it comes to wording non-standard clauses.'
  • 'Strong team, ensuring timely and spotless execution of their workstream.'

Key clients

  • Dukes Education Group
  • Cavendish Education Group
  • Erevena Limited
  • Paragon Business Finance PLC
  • Salt Finance Ltd
  • Promarine Finance Limited
  • Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending Limited
  • Shawbrook Bank Limited
  • Santander Bank UK Plc
  • Octopus Investments
  • Stek Advocaten
  • British International Investment plc (formerly CDC Group plc)
  • Boilerjuice Limited
  • Net1 International Holdings AS
  • Cohort plc
  • Foundation Investment Partners Limited
  • Alpha Group Bidco Limited
  • Terido LLP
  • Five Arrows Principal Investments
  • Five Arrows Growth Capital
  • Livingbridge Enterprises LLP
  • FRP Advisory LLP
  • NVM Private Equity LLP
  • Leumi ABL Limited

Work highlights

  • Advising both the Cavendish Education Group and the Dukes Education Group on all their financings, including a significant upsize to the Dukes’s term and revolving facilities and a new highly structured multi-million financing for Cavendish.
  • Advised Wizard Bidco (a Five Arrows backed company) in relation to its multi-million financing to fund a series of acquisitions of Mintec Limited, and AgriBriefing.
  • Advised British International Investments plc on a multi-million-dollar financing of RFL Electronics, a consumer electronics manufacturer based in Bangladesh.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Rebecca Mauleverer

Rebecca Mauleverer

Shoosmiths LLP

Rebecca heads up Shoosmiths' national banking and finance team. She specialises in a range of debt finance work, including secured and unsecured, bilateral and syndicated lending both on a national and international level. She acts on behalf of either lenders (be they banks, private equity, venture capital or other funds) or corporate borrowers. Rebecca's experience includes acquisition and leveraged finance, property finance, invoice finance and marine finance. She has worked on a wide variety of transactions. Recent examples include: advising a bank in relation to a financing in connection with the £70 million acquisition of an offshore cross jurisdictional trust and fund business; advising a private equity backed company (a national training and educational specialist) in relation to its £45.5 million unitranche and super senior financing; advising a leading bank in relation to its £80 million syndicated asset based lending facility (plus a £20 million accordion option) providing back to back financing for an invoice discount provider; advising a property investment fund in relation to its financing arrangements, including a £12.5 million facility to finance a London office block and an approximate £8 million facility to finance a number of national commercial and retail assets; and advising CDC Group plc in relation to a number of financings, most recently the USD15 million financing for PEG Africa, an off grid solar panel business.  

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Alexandra Tiptree

Other key lawyers

Rebecca Mauleverer, Callum Larkin