The Ethan & Oakley Law Firm corporate team advises businesses of all sizes as well as management teams, shareholders, investors and lenders. We guide our clients through the transaction process from initial start up to growth and development transactions, whether by equity or debt funding, acquisition or joint venture, reorganisation or restructuring, disposal via sale, listing or buyout and help them to achieve their goals in a calm, clear and pragmatic way.
Our clients cover a broad spectrum of industry sectors but are predominantly in the technology, private wealth, life sciences, property, retail and fashion sectors.
We also advise on all aspects of the governance and administration of companies, including directors’ duties, board and shareholder issues, constitutional and share capital issues and company secretarial services. Our team works closely with every client to gain a thorough understanding of their business and objectives. Where required, we involve our specialist colleagues in our other teams such as tax, intellectual property, real estate, social housing, employment, pensions and banking and finance to provide focused and expert advice.
A significant proportion of the work we do has an international element and we work with our international networks to ensure seamless delivery of service on cross-border projects.
We advise on a broad spectrum of funding arrangements – from day to day banking and finance transactions to complex, cross-border international trade and investment projects. Our banking and finance lawyers act for both borrowers and lenders, supporting owner managed businesses, banks and corporations as well as some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions, including a number based in London.
Our service offering spans secured and unsecured credit facilities, both bilateral and syndicated; development and property finance, including social housing; trade and commodity finance; acquisition finance; project finance and asset finance, including ship and yacht finance. We also specialise in receivables finance, currency and interest rate hedging, mezzanine finance and other structured finance transactions, including sophisticated intercreditor and security sharing arrangements.
Financial institutions and commodity companies worldwide consult our trade and commodity finance practice on receivables, letters of credit, pre-export, prepayment and borrowing based facilities. They also rely on our lawyers’ expertise in warehouse financing, documentary credits, bills of lading promissory notes and bills of exchange.
Our considerable history in the maritime and transport sector means we are regularly appointed to advise on all aspects of ship and yacht finance transactions, including build and repair contracts and credit and lease finance arrangements. Resolving complex, multi-jurisdictional matters is our signature strength in this area.
We have a well proven track record across a number of sectors, including technology, healthcare, social housing and education. Our banking and finance lawyers work closely with members of several other specialist teams within the firm to ensure that we are able to achieve our clients’ objectives within the desired timescales.