Provided by Eversheds Sutherland
Our Banking & Finance team is a truly global group, comprising over 150 specialist lawyers across more than 70 offices worldwide, supported by an extensive network of over 200 affiliated law firms. We deliver a coordinated, partner-led service that maintains consistent quality and a “best team” approach for clients across all jurisdictions. Our team’s expertise covers debt facilities, capital markets, treasury, and all financing transactions. We can also call upon our expert colleagues across tax, derivatives and regulation, who work closely with our Global Finance Group to ensure that all legal, regulatory, and tax implications of transactions are considered and seamlessly integrated. We pride ourselves on providing clear, pragmatic, and commercial advice, particularly on complex or high-risk matters, ensuring robust analysis with minimal legal jargon. Our transparent approach to pricing and process engineering enables us to complete complex transactions efficiently and cost-effectively, always tailored to each client’s needs. The scale and flexibility of our practice ensure we can handle large mandates, resource-intensive due diligence, and fast-paced deals, delivering value and confidence to our clients.
Provided by Chambers
Eversheds Sutherland has a respected finance team that regularly works with leading corporate groups and well-known lenders. The team is able to leverage its network of UK and international offices when advising on cross-border deals. The team has specialist expertise in a number of areas including education and real estate.
Eversheds Sutherland advised UK Land Estates in regard to a refinancing of its facilities with HSBC, Barclays and NatWest.
Provided by Chambers
All members of the Eversheds Sutherland team are able to explain complicated legal issues in layman's terms.
We stick with them because they have institutional knowledge of our organisation, and we find them good and pragmatic to work with.
Eversheds Sutherland are really responsive, proactive and very commercial in their approach.
They provide a consistently high level of service and have a history of delivering on time.
All members of the Eversheds Sutherland team are able to explain complicated legal issues in layman's terms.
We stick with them because they have institutional knowledge of our organisation, and we find them good and pragmatic to work with.
Eversheds Sutherland are really responsive, proactive and very commercial in their approach.
They provide a consistently high level of service and have a history of delivering on time.
Provided by Chambers
Paul Castle is head of Eversheds' Leeds-based banking and finance team. He frequently works on high-value transactions for both lenders and borrowers, and has specialist knowledge of financing in the education sector.
Paul Castle provides us with outstanding levels of service and professionalism.
He is pragmatic, approachable and commercial. He delivers in line with expectations whilst keeping things simple.
Paul is great to work with and demonstrates all of the required skills and knowledge. He is also highly efficient.
His availability, overall depth of knowledge of the legal landscape, and his knowledge of the current trends in the market mean that his legal advice is of the highest quality.
We have found Paul to be excellent in all respects.
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Cranswick plc
DFS Furniture plc
Drax Group
HSBC UK Bank plc
Harworth Group plc
Santander UK plc
UK Land Estates
Virgin Money (previously Clydesdale/Yorkshire Bank)