Banking & Finance
UK Guide 2025 : East Anglia
Band 1
Contact number
(01245) 211211About
Provided by Birketts LLP
Our highly regarded Banking and Finance Team has a comprehensive understanding of the issues faced by our clients in today's challenging financing environment. The team's expertise covers a variety of financial products and services across a wide range of industry sectors. We are regularly instructed by lenders and investors, as well as borrowers and companies seeking finance.
Chambers Review
Birketts advises on corporate, real estate and agricultural finance and is further active on refinancings. Its clients include well-established national banks. It is experienced in handling invoice discount financing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Birketts have excellent technical legal skills, great creative problem-solving capability and good project management, which is key in finance transactions."
"Birketts have a broad range of expertise and personnel with years of experience."
"Birketts' team are commercial and can provide a good level of detail. They think ahead, they think matters through and are well-rounded; they have a good, broadly experienced bench."
"Birketts fields a personable, responsive team who have helped us find solutions with often complex matters."
"Birketts have excellent technical legal skills, great creative problem-solving capability and good project management, which is key in finance transactions."
"Birketts have a broad range of expertise and personnel with years of experience."
"Birketts' team are commercial and can provide a good level of detail. They think ahead, they think matters through and are well-rounded; they have a good, broadly experienced bench."
"Birketts fields a personable, responsive team who have helped us find solutions with often complex matters."
Notable Practitioners
Alex Schaafsma acts on syndicated finance matters as well as development finance, investment loan facilities and refinancing.
"Alex Schaafsma was effective and responsive and had good, broad experience."
"Alex Schaafsma is very good and very expert."
"Alex is very helpful as when and needed. She is very good at what she does."
Devreaux Gravell represents leading banks and private credit providers on the lending side, as well as real estate developers and investors. He also has considerable experience of asset-backed and receivables financing.
"Devreaux is technically excellent, great at problem solving, calm, pleasant and good with clients."
"Devreaux has great forethought, good all-round experience and is also great in dealing with insolvency issues."
"Devreaux ensured that the matter ran smoothly to tight deadlines."