Business Acquisition Finance Lawyers

The acquisition and leveraged finance lawyers in our Banking Team have extensive experience advising on corporate acquisition finance, enabling the delivery of funds to our clients in a difficult credit environment.

Corporate or business finance is often utilised to enable corporate acquisitions, which could be an MBO, a buy-and-build strategy, a secondary buyout or a number of other structures. This is often used as an alternative to equity financing, with the acquisition funded by debt (or partially funded by debt with equity alongside it), which may be secured against the borrower, the target and its wider group.

Business acquisitions often require the creation of a group structure or a restructure of an existing group structure to enable the acquisition to occur and to accommodate the acquisition finance (either as debt, equity or both). This sometimes necessitates consideration of regulatory frameworks related to acquisition finance.

Our Banking Team represent both borrowers and lenders, from start-ups to multi-nationals, banks, venture capital and private equity funds. Our team assist with initial structuring and term sheet negotiation, negotiation of facility agreements and associated security, corporate structuring and restructuring through to completion. Our Banking Team also work closely with our Insolvency & Restructuring Team to provide bespoke debt finance solutions.

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