Louise Bailey

Practice Areas

Louise Bailey is a partner in A&L Goodbody's Finance department in Belfast. Louise has over twenty years' experience acting for a wide range of domestic and international financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers in a broad range of bilateral and syndicated cross-border financing transactions. Louise advises on corporate lending, real estate finance, development finance, securitisations, debt restructurings and loan portfolio sales.

Areas of expertise include:

• Finance

• Capital Markets – Debt

Career

Experience Advising:

- Wells Fargo Bank in relation to facilities to the EQT Exeter Group.

- Northern Ireland Investment Fund in relation to development financing for the Ebrington Hotel.

- Tristan Capital Partners in relation to The Junction and The Outlet Retail Parks.

- National Westminster Bank plc t/a Ulster Bank in relation to the acquisition by Marram Hotel Partners of the Bushmills Inn.

- Advising Radius Payment Solutions in relation to various aspects of their financing requirements.

- Advising Insight Investment Management (Global) Limited in respect of the Northern Irish aspects of investments in trade receivables securitisations.

- Advising a lender on a potential expansion of their lifetime and retirement interest only mortgage business to Northern Ireland.

- Various financial institutions in relation to loan portfolio sales.

- Various banks on the Northern Irish aspects of ring-fencing pursuant to Part VII FSMA.

- Contributing author for Northern Ireland in respect of a Basel II database for the Federal Association of German Banks, the Federal - Association of German Mortgage Banks, the Federal Association of Germany’s Public Sector Banks and other member banks.