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Addleshaw Goddard‘s banking and finance team in Leeds is led by the ’excellent’ Andrew Fordham, a prominent finance lawyer in the region with experience advising both lender and borrower clients. The team acts as the core panel firm for all UK clearing banks, and has specific expertise regarding real estate finance. Nick Barlow has a particular focus on social, sustainable and green finance. Legal director Geoff McGinley and general counsel David Handy are also key team members.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Super professional, detailed, considered, proactive and commercial also.’

  • ‘Andrew Fordham leads by example. Personable and pragmatic and available at all times to see things from the borrower and lender lens, which is really important and quite unique.’

  • ‘They are very good about understanding our key objectives and the segment of the market that we and our customers operate in. They routinely deliver for us on complex and sophisticated matters within no service issues (even when sometimes the timetables seem impossibly tight). Plus they've always been able to draw on what is a very deep team whenever they've needed to.’

  • ‘Andrew Fordham is excellent. He's hard working, pragmatic, calm under pressure and always delivers. In particular, he strikes a good balance between (i) dealing with technical, legal and drafting issues on our behalf and (ii) knowing when to escalate key issues for our consideration (and clearly setting out those key issues in a manner that helps us to take an informed decision).’

  • ‘Andrew Fordham did an exceptional job for us. The transaction was a very complicated one where the banking aspects were unusual and required clear thinking and advice, to explain what the legal and commercial implications were and help us to reach a conclusion on what was appropriate, what was acceptable and what was not acceptable.’

  • ‘Addleshaw Goddard is the pre-eminent lender law firm in the housing sector. They have the depth of expertise and resources to handle multiple complex transactions. We know that we are in the safest hands when represented by Addleshaws.’

  • ‘All individuals are professional, experienced and a pleasure to work with.'

  • 'Geoff McGinley is always prepared to assist and add value to the relationship, both inside and outside of transactions.'

Key clients

  • HSBC UK Bank plc
  • Aviva Investors
  • Santander UK PLC
  • William Jackson Food Group
  • Daniel Thwaites PLC
  • Nash Squared Group
  • Kelling Group
  • CPPI Bridgewater Place LP
  • Ribston Industrial Fund
  • Trustees of the London Clinic Limited

Work highlights

  • Advising Kelling Group on £144m financing to invest in an environmentally sustainable fleet of towable units.
  • Advising CPPI Bridgewater Place, and its manager Marick Capital, on financing and security aspects for the sale of Bridgewater Place.
  • Advising all funders on the approximately £529m in aggregate of existing loan facilities to The Guinness Partnership and the transfer of engagements by Guinness Care and Support to TGPL as part of a group reorganisation, resulting in a single housing entity owning/managing over 60,000 residential and care units.

Lawyers

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David Handy

Hall of fameAddleshaw Goddard

Partner specialising in general corporate lending, leveraged finance, restructurings and real estate finance: clients include HSBC Bank plc, Barclays Bank PLC, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Clydesdale Bank/Yorkshire Bank.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andrew Fordham

Other key lawyers

Nick Barlow, Geoff McGinley, James Washington