Banking & Finance
UK Guide 2025 : Yorkshire
Band 3
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Provided by Irwin Mitchell
Our Yorkshire Banking & Finance Team has long-established expertise in advising both lenders and borrowers on corporate banking, real estate finance (investment and development) and cross border finance and mezzanine finance, leveraged finance, structured finance and private equity funding.
The “day to day” work of our team is the drafting and negotiating of facility and security documents, project managing transactions, portfolio management, facility amendments, product development and re-financings.
Our Yorkshire offices are ‘full service’, and our banking and finance team has an established presence in the region. Given IM’s roots are in Yorkshire (our Sheffield office being founded in 1912) we have a genuine focus on the region and the diversity of the work undertaken highlights our strength in depth and the large cross section of the market we operate in; something that we consider to be unique within the Yorkshire market.
Broader recognition of our expertise means that we continue to win work in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Newcastle.
HSBC, Santander, Nortddeutssche Landesbank, ICG and ThinCats regularly instruct us on their London-based deals and many of our key relationships with people there are conducted from our Yorkshire offices.
We continue to win work consistently from existing clients such as HSBC, Santander, Lloyds Bank, NatWest, ICG, Norddeutsche Landesbank and ThinCats as well as other niche and challenger banks.
Chambers Review
Irwin Mitchell has a solid banking group that advises both borrowers and lenders on corporate banking mandates, as well as related areas such as real estate financings. Its lender client base includes UK clearing banks, alternative lenders and private banking groups. On the borrower side, Irwin Mitchell has notable expertise in regard to property financing matters on a domestic and international level.
Work Highlights
- Irwin Mitchell assisted Gravity Fitness with £30 million in debt financing to facilitate its expansion programme.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Irwin Mitchell team took the time to understand the background and parties involved in a matter that is far from routine."
"We have high confidence in the advice provided and service levels are consistently high."
"Their levels of responsiveness are consistently strong. The team proactively manages processes and appears to place high importance on delivering consistently high levels of client service."
"The team has always delivered on tight timeframes and manages expectations well."
"The Irwin Mitchell team took the time to understand the background and parties involved in a matter that is far from routine."
"We have high confidence in the advice provided and service levels are consistently high."
"Their levels of responsiveness are consistently strong. The team proactively manages processes and appears to place high importance on delivering consistently high levels of client service."
"The team has always delivered on tight timeframes and manages expectations well."
Notable Practitioners
Paddy Sturman frequently advises prominent national and international lenders on corporate and real estate finance. He is equally adept at acting for clients on refinancing and term loan transactions.
"Paddy is super professional, very commercial and highly responsive. He is always calm in tense negotiations and gets things done when they have to be done."
"Paddy has steered us expertly."
"He is capable of speaking in non-legal terms to explain any issues that have arisen and also ability to provide a rationale regarding any commercial view that needs to be taken."
"Paddy's technical expertise, alongside his commercial and proactive approach, ensures that processes and projects run smoothly."
"Paddy is universally regarded as a safe pair of hands and we know that we can trust him to deliver."