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Banking and finance

Expert legal guidance for banking and finance matters, tailored to your business needs.

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Our banking and finance lawyers act for a diverse client base, including more than 50 banks, building societies, funds and financial institutions, as well as PLCs and large corporate clients in the UK and globally. Recent work includes transactions for major banks and other financiers, prominent borrowers and investors across sectors including real estate, energy and infrastructure, corporate banking, fund finance and asset-backed finance. 

Our expertise

Real estate finance

Bringing specialist advice on real estate finance across various asset classes.

Real estate finance

Leveraged finance

Our leveraged finance lawyers provide transactional and strategic legal advice to lenders, investors and their investee companies, in the UK and in European leveraged finance markets.

Leveraged finance

Fund finance

Client-centric expertise, working with our fund clients as their funding requirements evolve, and working with our lender clients as they grow this area of their business.

Fund finance

Energy and infrastructure finance

Delivering bespoke legal expertise for energy and infrastructure finance, working alongside our clients to deliver innovative projects across the energy and infrastructure market.

Energy and infrastructure finance

Corporate debt and asset backed finance

Advising financiers and corporates on both domestic and cross-border financings from syndicated/bilateral facilities, private placements, to asset finance, invoice discounting and other asset backed facilities.

Corporate debt and asset backed finance

Derivatives

Our derivatives team advises on a broad range of derivatives and hedging transactions, documentation and regulatory issues.

Derivatives

Restructuring and insolvency

Advising stakeholders across distressed, restructuring and insolvency scenarios, from contingency planning and corporate restructuring to formal insolvency processes and cross-border matters.

Restructuring and insolvency

Finance in Focus: Driving growth and positive change video series

A seven-part series of in-conversation videos that spotlight how finance is being used to deliver meaningful outcomes. From sustainable aviation fuel and Net Zero buildings to energy transition projects and technology-driven growth, each episode shares stories of innovation and positive impact – while drawing on the cross-sector expertise of our team.

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Our team

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Examples of our work

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc / lender club

Advising a club of lenders comprising NORD/LB, Santander UK, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rabobank and Aviva Investors on a £240m refinancing package for a 1GW portfolio of 28 battery energy storage system assets.

Camco REPP 2

Advised on the fund’s inaugural transaction: a USD multi-tranche loan facility to Kwama Energy Limited, supporting its investment in Ilute Solar Limited’s landmark 25MW solar photovoltaic project in Zambia. The project is described as Africa’s first non-recourse, project-financed generation project operating under a market-based power purchase agreement.

Equitix

Acting on the refinancing of its £125m revolving facility agreement for Fund I.

HSBC UK Bank plc

Acted on a £51m loan facility to Holkham Estates, secured against a portfolio of agricultural land and caravan park assets.

Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSp

Acted as lender on a £13.5m loan to Plata Capital Limited, trading as Sokin, a global foreign payments business.

Aptimus ABL DAC

Acting in connection with global asset finance facilities provided to Tekmar Group plc, involving assets in KSA and the UAE and guarantors in KSA, the UAE and the UK.

Gladsmuir Resource Recovery Limited

Acted for Gladsmuir Resource Recovery Limited on the acquisition (including the financing aspects) of an energy from waste plant, material recycling facility and other related assets from Levenseat Renewable Energy Limited (in administration) acting by its administrators from PWC.

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What others say

“Burges Salmon's banking and fund finance team distinguishes itself through a combination of deep industry expertise and a highly commercial approach.”

Chambers UK 2026

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