Banking & Finance
UK Guide 2025 : The South
Band 2
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+44 (0)1293 605000About
Provided by DMH Stallard LLP
We are a true banking-specialist firm, with significant and in-depth banking and lending expertise across the board.
Alongside our impressive roster of clients, we undertake significant and complex borrower work covering a wide range of lending arrangements – including acquisition, real estate investment, development and bridging finance. We work across many sectors, and we have significant experience in hotels/leisure, healthcare, charities, and manufacturing.
We regularly deliver bespoke and tailored training sessions to legal teams and deal teams for our lender clients across a range of topics. Recent subjects have included ‘green and sustainable’ issues in lending, technical aspects of taking security and fixed and floating charges, negotiating term sheets, navigating instructing external solicitors and the Part 8 Procedure under the Civil Procedure Rules.
We enhance our lender relationships with regular review meetings and the provision of key MI data to our clients. We also report on matters where we have added value (whether through training, offering legal know-how, providing ad-hoc advice and support or facilitating business links) as well as on diversity, inclusion, environmental impact and ESG, so that clients can quickly see the benefit of using us.
Chambers Review
DMH Stallard is routinely instructed to handle a diverse range of loan transactions, with experience advising on acquisition finance and property finance. Its clients include a number of major UK clearing and challenger banks, as well as a range of borrowers.
Work Highlights
- DMH Stallard advised Principle Group Services on setting up an Employee Ownership Trust and subsequent LMA financing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"DMH Stallard takes a commercial approach and provides straightforward explanations of the practical options available."
"They had expertise in this complex area and had all the resources available."
"I felt that they gave best advice at all times to protect our interests."
"The team at DMH Stallard is very knowledgeable but also able to provide a commercial take on issues when providing advice."
"DMH Stallard takes a commercial approach and provides straightforward explanations of the practical options available."
"They had expertise in this complex area and had all the resources available."
"I felt that they gave best advice at all times to protect our interests."
"The team at DMH Stallard is very knowledgeable but also able to provide a commercial take on issues when providing advice."
Notable Practitioners
Sarah Naylor is head of the banking and finance department at the firm. She has deep experience in acquisition finance and debt refinancing.
"Sarah is always very helpful, supportive and pragmatic."
"Sarah is very attentive, keeps me in the picture as to developments and advises me on the best course of action."
"Sarah provides excellent, commercially beneficial support."
"Sarah always takes a practical approach in relation to the deal itself. She is very approachable and always available to advise on deals, no matter how early stage they are."
"She is, without a doubt, one of the easiest individuals to work with. She absolutely gets our business, is always willing to help and is super responsive."
Ranked Lawyers at
DMH Stallard LLP
The South
Members
Provided by DMH Stallard LLP
Cathy Searle
Ralph Crane
Head of Department
Tom Trowbridge
Industries
Provided by DMH Stallard LLP
Banking
Real Estate