We provide full legal service to UK and overseas lenders, borrowers and sponsors relating to a wide range of leveraged and acquisition finance transactions.
What We Do
Our specialist team advises on the senior, mezzanine and junior debt finance aspects of corporate acquisitions, including management buy-outs and buy-ins. We also advise on security structures and intercreditor/priority issues.
We help borrowers and investors get the funding structure they need while making sure that the facility is practical and not unduly restrictive.
After an acquisition, we help with negotiating any extra funding requirements to support day-to-day cash flow and capital expenditure of the business.
In particular, we can draft, negotiate and provide advice on the following:
- Bilateral and syndicated/club loan agreements relating to a large number of committed and uncommitted facilities
- Security arrangements relating to:
- Corporate lending transactions
- Debentures
- Legal charges
- Chattel mortgages
- Assigning rights under contracts with third parties
- Guarantees from corporates and individuals
- Share charges
- Account charges
- Inter-creditor arrangements, including deeds of priority and subordination and relating to mezzanine debt
- The early stage in transactions such as:
- Drafting term sheets
- Advising on deal structures
- Identifying legal challenges
- Offering risk management strategies to complete deals safely for both lender and borrowers
- Advice and legal due diligence reports on sale and purchase agreements and disclosure letters
- Contacting a client’s corporate finance and tax advisors about all non-legal due diligence.
Why Choose Irwin Mitchell?
We act for both lenders and borrowers, so we understand leveraged and acquisition finance transactions from all perspectives. This lets us quickly identify issues that arise and prepare for them with solutions that are acceptable to all parties.
Our specialists in leveraged and acquisition finance are supported by our teams in corporate, real estate, tax, employment, pensions, insolvency and restructuring. The teams have many years’ experience advising in complex acquisitions and overseas, by both asset and share purchases.
Completing a deal is our main goal. We protect your interests, but always give practical, commercial advice. We negotiate on the points that matter to save time and money on those that don’t.
Recent Work
We advised Lion City Group on facilities of roughly $50m for acquiring Spear & Jackson Group and Pantene Industrial Company. This involved raising senior debt and asset-based finance in the UK, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions.
We advised Encon Group on its refinancing, including £19m senior leveraged facilities and £35m asset-based lending facilities.. We also advised on the discounted acquisition of a £32m loan note issued by the Encon Group to its historic parent company the Wolseley Group.
We advised Lloyds Structured Finance on providing £25m revolving credit facilities to Pressure Technologies plc. This was to fund the acquisition of Quadscot Holdings Limited and to meet the working capital needs of the larger group.
Contact Us
Our specialist lawyers provide a full range of legal services for overseas lenders, borrowers and sponsors. Give our friendly team a call on 0808 291 4962 or get in touch online.
