Banking and Finance Legal Advice

As an offshore corporate law firm, we provide legal advice to banks and other financial institutions. Our banking & finance team provides advice and is highly experienced in:

- The creation, protection and priority of security interests;
- The creation of guarentees and indemnities;
- Contractual and structural subordination, including with respect to subordination and intercreditor arrangements;
- Corprate benefit concerns arising out of the creation of third party collateral support; and
- Registration of Security and the enforceability of security interests, guarentees and indemnities, including the rights and remedies available to lenders and borrowers;
  Asset-backed and receivable financing;
- Complex group financings and corporate debt refinancing, including syndication loan agreement, private placements and inter-creditor agreements and debt subordination issues.

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