Alasdair Mackinnon

Practice Areas

Banking and Finance- covering real estate finance (both development and investment), acquisition and leveraged finance, ABL and specialty finance and general corporate banking matters.

Career

Trained with Birketts LLP and qualified in 2002. Joined DWF LLP in Liverpool in 2004 before moving to the Manchester office in 2008. Joined Hill Dickinson LLP in Manchester in 2017.

Professional Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales

Personal

am married and the father of two girls who keep us busy. When time allows, I enjoy watching and playing sport (tennis, cricket and rugby mainly) as well as following the fortunes of Ipswich Town FC.

When not doing that, we have a miniature Schnauzer who enjoys taking us for long walks.

Clients

I act for a mix of lender clients across different sectors including high street banks, asset finance providers, specialist real estate lenders, challenger banks and alternative lenders. I also have a strong borrower client practice acting for both sponsor backed businesses and owner managed corporates.

Work Highlights

• Acting for a finance provider in connection with its borrowing base and specialty warehouse financing from various lenders, including the drafting of appropriate sale and purchase and servicer arrangements

• Acting for a consumer finance provider in connection with is warehouse facilities from a specialist fund which provided for wet and dry funding lines

• Acting for a regeneration fund on development facilities totalling c£60m and the subsequent phased redemption and release of security

• Advising a North West family owned business in relation to its various facilities, including a syndicated ABL facility and its subsequent refinance (as part of a private equity investment and de-merger)

• Acting for a bank in connection with senior acquisition facilities made available to a sponsor backed business that also had second lien facilities in place

Industry Sector Expertise

• Professional Services

• Financial Services

• Private Equity

• Real Estate and Infrastructure

Expert in these Jurisdictions

England and Wales

Languages Spoken

English

Experience

Alasdair is one of the lead partners in the firm’s banking practice in Manchester and specialises in non-contentious transactional banking matters.

Alasdair joined Hill Dickinson in 2017 from another international law firm where he practiced in the banking and finance team for 13 years, latterly as a partner. His clients include many high-street and alternative lenders, local corporates and private equity houses.

Alasdair’s practice covers the full range of non-contentious finance work including real estate finance (both investment and development), acquisition and leveraged finance, asset based lending, specialty finance and general corporate banking matters. Transactions will typically include different debt structures and often involve cross-border elements.

Education