Graham Hall

Graham has more than 27 years’ experience in banking and finance law, specialising in providing legal and commercial advice to institutional lenders, debt funds, private equity sponsors, and borrowers on structured finance transactions within the UK and overseas.

Graham’s areas of expertise include property, development, invoice, asset, acquisition, and Islamic finance for high-profile, complex transactions involving bilateral, senior, mezzanine, club and syndicated finance facilities.

He also has considerable experience in secured and unsecured bilateral and syndicated lending (including Loan Market Association based transactions) and complex multi-jurisdictional inter-creditor issues.

Examples of Graham’s work include:

• Advising on £130 million back-to-back funding facilities.
• Advising on a multi-million-pound Islamic finance property development facility for an established property developer.
• Advising on a multi-million-pound development facility for a hotel operator.
• Advising a finance company on moving their funding portfolio off-shore.
• Assisting a European car manufacturer with their back-to-back invoice discounting facilities.
• Negotiating the refinance of facilities offered by a syndicate of banks to a national retailer within a strict timescale.
• Negotiating and advising a well-known hotel chain on their multi-million-pound refinance with cross-border funding.
• Advising a market produce supplier on their refinance with equity injection.
• Negotiating and advising on the £70 million development of a social housing project.
• Advising on the acquisition finance for a large care home involving cross-border elements.