England - South East • Finance
Birketts LLP
Birketts LLP‘s team ’works very hard‘ to advise institutional and alternative lenders, and borrowers, notably HSBC, Lloyds and councils, on the full scope of banking and finance issues. The team exhibits expertise across real estate and agricultural finance mandates, often handling trade finance and invoice discounting issues. Alex Schaafsma heads up the practice from Cambridge with her expertise in acting for borrowers and lenders in real estate financing transactions concerning both developments and investments. Based in Chelmsford, the ’excellent‘ Devreaux Gravell is particularly adept at assisting with syndicated and bilateral transactions relating to receivables financing and general corporate lending.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'Practical and get the job done. Very commercial.'
- 'They are keen to complete the job and work very hard to get the best solution.'
- 'Devreaux Gravell is excellent on the banking side.'
Key clients
- HSBC Bank plc
- Lloyds Bank plc
- OakNorth Bank plc
- Santander plc
- Triple Point Capital
- National Westminster Bank plc / RBS
- Time Holdco Limited
- Time Group Holdings Limited
- One Savings Bank trading as Kent Reliance
- Alpha Bank London Limited
- Secure Trust Bank plc
- Oxbury Bank plc
- Lendinvest
- Muntons plc
- Green Label Foods Limited
Work highlights
- Advised Muntons plc on the amendment and restatement of its £90m receivables and stock financing facilities made available by HSBC Invoice Finance (UK) Limited, which included a cross-border element.
- Advised the Arbora Group on a term loan facility of £10m from LendNet LLP to finance a property development.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Alex Schaafsma