Asset Finance & Leasing
With over 30 lawyers specialising in asset finance, we are widely regarded as a market leader.
Our focus is on the business of key sector clients in transport (including aircraft, ships and rail), energy and infrastructure (including wind farms) and technology and media (including film and sport).
We act for a large number of UK and international banks, lessors and other financial institutions, arrangers, owners/operators, manufacturers, equity investors, studios, broadcasters and producers, governments and government agencies.
We are one of a handful of firms in the UK to provide advice on all aspects of asset finance including:
- All types of leasing (finance and operating) and hiring in both the private and public sectors
- Reorganisation, restructuring and enforcement of large debt and lease facilities
- Highly structured tax-based financings, vendor programmes and other sales aid arrangements
- Receivables financing
- Securitisation
- Cross-border transactions
- Factoring and invoice discounting
- Software financing
- Acquisitions and disposals of asset finance companies
- Portfolios and leasing into projects (including PFI/PPP), mainly for the major UK finance and operating lessors and large corporates
Our asset finance team is supported by specialists in tax, corporate finance, project finance, trade finance, real estate, technology, media & telecoms, energy, intellectual property, environment and dispute resolution, and lawyers in industry groups including rail, leisure, sport and transport.