Leon Stephenson
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Banking & Finance: Fund Finance
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Provided by Leon Stephenson
Practice Areas
Leon is well-known for excellence providing mid-market banking and finance services on behalf of lenders. Clients have described him as “very commercial” and “an excellent networker” who “brings people together and gives good advice’ … “very good at complex structures” and “a pioneer of making deals happen."
Leon works with bank and non-bank lenders, managers, general partners and limited partners of funds on fund financing transactions with private equity, secondaries, real estate, direct lending and infrastructure funds.
He has a great deal of experience advising on Net Asset Value (NAV)/asset-backed and hybrid facilities, secondary funds facilities, capital call facilities, co-investment and GP/manager support facilities and other types of liquidity facilities provided to funds.
Leon has a large client base of non-bank lenders doing move innovative fund finance transactions and also has substantial experience dealing with ESG fund finance deals.
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Chambers Review
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Leon Stephenson is relied upon by financial institutions for his stellar representation in fund financings. He advises on both domestic and cross-border transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He always goes above and beyond to ensure we receive the best service from his team and he always makes himself available for any transaction-specific questions."
"He is one of the leading lawyers in the funds finance space and a real pleasure to work with."
"He always goes above and beyond to ensure we receive the best service from his team and he always makes himself available for any transaction-specific questions."
"He is one of the leading lawyers in the funds finance space and a real pleasure to work with."
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