Hawkins Hatton Corporate Lawyers Limited supports clients with transactions in a wide range of sectors, including agricultural, health care, leisure and commercial real estate. The firm handles acquisitions, refinances and restructures. Colin Rodrigues, in Dudley, leads the firm’s practice, advising large, national commercial banks on their transactions.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Their ability to pursue problem-solving innovation and presenting resolutions for the funder to consider the wider risk, to allow the funder to consider the commercial risk.'

  • ‘Colin Rodrigues and Harminder Sandhu are the two key principles in the business and collectively, take an active role in every aspect of the deal and seeing it through to completion.’

  • ‘The firm have an outstanding reputation for partner-led case ownership, with superb communication and collaboration across all of the professionals involved with the client.’

  • ‘Harminder Sandhu and Colin Rodrigues set the standards for the firm with their outstanding focus on culture, environment and leadership. This translates through to the client experience which is why we recommend them.’

  • ‘Great team approach and really approachable and knowledgeable with a can do attitude ’

  • ‘Experts in the field.’

  • ‘Hawkins Hatton as a firm are very flexible in their approach, they have the expertise to complete with the big firms but make time to be a local friendly firm. The firm offers great value to our clients and they always keep to their promise.’

  • ‘Colin Rodrigues gets involved in discussions with the customer and he shows great enthusiasm and empathy towards clients.'

Key clients

  • HSBC (UK) Bank Plc
  • NatWest Bank PLC
  • Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  • Lloyds Bank
  • Invest & Fund
  • Frontier Development Capital
  • Finance Birmingham
  • Metro Bank
  • Barclays Bank PLC
  • CAPC UK Limited

Work highlights

  • Acted for a mainstream lender’s corporate team in the refinance of a pharmaceutical customer for a facility in excess of £17 million.
  • Acted for a mainstream lender in connection with its customer’s acquisition of a large complex agricultural site valued in excess of £4 million.
  • Acted on behalf of a specialist development lender in connection with the refinance of its customer’s development site in south London for £5 million.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Colin Rodrigues

Other key lawyers

Harminder Sandhu