Banking & Finance
UK Guide 2025 : Yorkshire
Band 3
About
Provided by Shoosmiths LLP
Our specialist banking & finance team advises clients on a range of financing transactions across industries including healthcare, energy, telecoms and retail, often with a multi-jurisdictional element.
Acting for borrowers, lenders and investors means we have a practical understanding of the needs of all parties to a financing transaction.
Our national banking and finance team operate across England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland providing a seamless service across our various locations. We work closely with the UK’s major banks and financial institutions and have approved panel solicitor status with many of them.
Managing transactions from start to finish, we ensure a smooth and cohesive process, enabling clients to continue to focus on building their relationships and running their businesses.
Our team will take responsibility for making the deal happen, speaking your language and putting your commercial interests first – one of the reasons clients describe our team as “commercial and results driven”.
What sets us apart from others is our ability to truly listen to our clients and use their feedback to continually improve. Because of this, we have been recognised in national award programmes for innovation and client service excellence.
Chambers Review
Shoosmiths has a reputable banking and finance team in Leeds, acting on both traditional and alternative lending. The firm is well-versed in refinancing transactions, in addition to providing support in relation to the finance aspects of M&A deals.
Work Highlights
- Shoosmiths assisted Churchill Group with a £65 million term loan and financing of its transition to an employee ownership structure.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Shoosmiths fields very experienced operators who give candid, commercial advice."
"They are commercial and sensible; they know what the client can give and what they can't in negotiations, even without asking tons of questions."
"The team is good at having a view on the wider transaction and knowing how the banking piece fits within our wider commercial goals."
"Shoosmiths has good levels of awareness of what the standard market positions are, which is very useful as part of legal negotiations."
"The team is quick to respond to questions and queries and to deliver on transaction deadlines."
"Shoosmiths fields very experienced operators who give candid, commercial advice."
"They are commercial and sensible; they know what the client can give and what they can't in negotiations, even without asking tons of questions."
"The team is good at having a view on the wider transaction and knowing how the banking piece fits within our wider commercial goals."
"Shoosmiths has good levels of awareness of what the standard market positions are, which is very useful as part of legal negotiations."
"The team is quick to respond to questions and queries and to deliver on transaction deadlines."
Notable Practitioners
Anna Robson frequently acts on debt finance matters and asset-based lending transactions, offering additional expertise in refinancing and alternative lending.
"Anna Robson is very professional, very knowledgeable, very experienced and very commercial. She understands the client's business."
"She is very hands-on, is good at negotiation with counterparties, very pragmatic and very commercial. She understands the risks to lenders or borrowers and has good technical and commercial sense."
"Anna is a high-calibre individual who is capable of offering a commercial view to assist in agreeing transactions."
Charlotte Thomas assists with acquisition finance and refinancings, acting for borrowers as well as lending banks.
"Charlotte knows our business really well and knows how to manage me as a client."
"Charlotte knows when to have her client focus on things or when to take them herself."
Kat Raanan is an increasingly well-respected associate in the Leeds finance team at Shoosmiths. She advises clients on both the lender and borrower side, assisting on refinancing transactions and acquisition finance among other matters.
"Kat Raanan is strong, hands-on and effective, quick and commercial, and she also has a good knowledge of risk."
"Kat has a strong presence in market and is an experienced member of the team."
Ranked Lawyers at
Shoosmiths LLP
Yorkshire
Clients
Provided by Shoosmiths LLP
Aero Services Global Group Limited
Churchill Group Holdings Limited
HSBC UK Bank Plc
Latus Health Ltd