EXPERTISE

His experience includes advising lenders and borrowers across a wide range of English and Scots law banking transactions, with a particular focus on corporate lending and borrowing, leveraged finance and real estate finance.

Experience includes:

• Acting for a syndicate of lenders in the financing of a 67 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland.
• Acting for a manufacturing group in securing facilities to support its acquisition of one of the UK's leading timber frame manufacturers.
• Acting for a lender in respect of its consent to the merger of two English universities and the re-documentation of an existing term loan facility on LMA terms.
• Acting for various PE funds in the negotiation of acquisition and working capital facilities relating to investments in the leisure sector.
• Acting in the provision of a £150m development facility by a lending syndicate to support the growth of a BTR platform in the PRS market.
• Acting on numerous Scottish, English and cross-border local counsel instructions across various sectors, with a particular focus on supporting lead firms from the Nordics.

Thomas has also played a key role as part of the team within the firm that is leading on supporting our clients in their response to the reforms introduced by the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023.