Expertise
John is a highly experienced finance lawyer and a recognised acquisition and leveraged finance expert. His expertise also extends to general bank lending, development finance and real estate finance.
John has significant experience acting for lenders, private equity and corporate borrowers.
John has been recognised by leading industry publications Finance Monthly Magazine and Acquisition Finance Magazine receiving the former’s “UK Banking and Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” award in 2009 and the latter’s “Leveraged Finance Adviser of the Year for the UK” award in the same year. Both awards followed industry wide surveys of clients and other professionals.
How do you help clients?
I utilise my longstanding connections with senior figures in the UK finance industry to help clients initially by introducing borrowers to lenders and vice versa so that transactions looking for finance find the appropriate source of financing.
Having sourced the relevant finance, I effectively negotiate for borrowers and lenders alike a transaction that works for all the parties concerned.
Finally, I deliver such transactions on time and on budget having a recognised ability for leading large teams on cross border transactions and resolving complex issues to successfully complete deals working in many cases to tight timescales.
Experience
- Advising Barclays Bank PLC and Santander UK plc providing a syndicated £30m revolving credit facility to the Everyman Cinema Group.
- Advising Barclays Bank PLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc providing syndicated £100m term and revolving credit facilities to The Economist Group to finance various acquisitions.
- Advising HSBC Bank plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc providing syndicated £55m term and revolving credit facilities to Advance Computer Software PLC to finance various acquisitions.
- Advising Genus PLC, the world’s leading animal biotech company, on syndicated £180m term and revolving credit facilities provided by Barclays Bank PLC and others to finance acquisitions in Canada, South America and the United States.
- Advising Keywords Studios PLC, the world’s leading on-line games servicing company, on a syndicated €100m revolving credit facility provided by Barclays Bank PLC and others to finance acquisitions across the world.