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

• Domestic & International Finance

• Capital Markets – Debt

Career

Experience includes 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.

•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.

•Various financial institutions in relation to loan portfolio sales.

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

•Lloyds TSB, JP Morgan and Citigroup re £75m multi-currency revolving credit facility and £440m secured notes issue by Equiniti Group.

•Goldman Sachs International, Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC and Castle Hill Asset Management LLP in a refinancing of senior debt of £120m.

•Royal Bank of Scotland, as agent, re facilities to the Lookers group.

•Joint special liquidators of IBRC in relation to the sale of the Rock portfolio.

•ABE Clearing S.A.S. à capital variable in providing legal opinion to the European Central Bank in its capacity as overseer of the EURO1 system.

•HSBC Bank plc and Société Generale, as Arrangers, re RCIUK auto loan securitisation.

•On the refinance of Victoria Square shopping centre.