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Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - North West

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

The highly respected finance team at DLA Piper has a wealth of experience in relation to leveraged finance and asset finance. It also assists clients with acquisition finance, real estate finance and refinancing matters. The team advises corporate borrowers, banks and non-traditional lenders and is able to leverage the firm's global network to tackle multi-jurisdictional challenges.

Work Highlights

  • DLA Piper acted for OakNorth Bank regarding its senior secured debt financing of a GBP27 million investment in Ultimate Performance by Inflexion.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Matthew Christmas
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Matthew Christmas
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Band 1

Head of the firm's international leveraged finance practice, Matthew Christmas is a well-regarded practitioner in the North West, with specialist expertise in corporate debt financing. His clients include large banks and borrowers from different sectors.

Matt knows how we think and work and feels very much part of the team. We feel really comfortable working with him and get very high-quality advice.

Matthew Christmas is very responsive and well up to speed with our business. He gives us relevant and reliable advice, whatever the request.

Joseph Frew
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Joseph Frew
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Band 2
Joseph Frew possesses a significant amount of experience advising on acquisition finance, real estate finance and asset-based lending. He acts for borrowers as well as banks and other financial institutions.

Joseph Frew is extremely knowledgeable and always provides an excellent level of service when advising on complex matters.

Rebecca Williams
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Rebecca Williams
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Band 3

Rebecca Williams is a highly experienced partner in the firm's Manchester office. She is a recognised expert on asset finance and counts both providers and lessees among her clients.

Rebecca is an extremely supportive senior lawyer with a very strong market reputation developed over nearly 20 plus years.

Rebecca Williams provided excellent advice and client support. She was notable for her ease of presentation of complex issues and her detailed commercial awareness.

Charles Weems
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Charles Weems
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Band 4

Charles Weems advises both lenders and private equity clients on leveraged finance. His lender client base includes both traditional and alternative lenders.

Charles Weems gives us high-quality advice, knows how we think and is commercially aware of the boundaries of where we will go to.

He is extremely diligent, extremely responsive, extremely pro-active and very technical.

Ranked Lawyers at
DLA Piper LLP

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Matthew Christmas
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Matthew Christmas
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Band 1
Joseph Frew
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Joseph Frew
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Band 2
Rebecca Williams
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Rebecca Williams
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Band 3
Charles Weems
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Charles Weems
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Band 4