CONTACTS
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info@stephenbutlerandcolawfirm.com
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Insurance Law →
Brain injury →
Truck accidents →
LANGUAGES
English
French
Dutch
Drafting of, and advice relating to, facility documentation for banks, receivables financiers, asset-based lenders, finance houses and peer-to-peer platforms for funding trade purchases, corporate acquisitions, receivables, inventory, working capital and property acquisition, development and investment facilities.
Drafting of, and advice relating to, security documentation including debentures and security over land, shares, intellectual property, book debts, sub-hiring agreements, cash deposits and chattels and in relation to pledges and bills of sale.
Intercreditor priority and subordination documentation.
Facility documentation for banks, ABLs and finance houses for funding trade purchases and MBOs/MBIs, working capital and property purchase facilities.
Security documentation including debentures and charges on land, shares, intellectual property, book debts, sub-hiring agreements, cash deposits and chattels.
Intercreditor priority and subordination documentation.
Advising on the finance aspects of high value corporate tax schemes involving the UK and overseas jurisdictions.
EXPERIENCE
CORPORATE FINANCE
Advising on the establishment of services involving the introduction of prospective lenders and borrowers where pledge or chattel mortgage security over valuable assets was to be provided.
Advising UK and overseas borrowers in relation to property development and investment facility transactions.
Sales and purchase of portfolios of finance contracts and mortgages.
Advising a UK Group in the medical services sector on acquisition finance facilities relating to acquisitions in Oceania and Europe.
Advising a group based in South East Asia on acquisition finance facilities relating to a UK acquisition.
Advising on the acquisition of receivables facilities and related security.
Advising on the purchase of specified debt types (e.g. CCA regulated, VAT refund claims, NHS receivables and construction industry debt).
Advising a Luxembourg based trust on a convertible loan made by it to a UK PLC which owned mining rights through various subsidiary companies.
Advising an Oceania based food services group on facilities it to enable it to establish a UK outlet.
Advising a financial services group in relation to a bond issue to be secured by security provided by the bond issuer in favour of a security trustee.
FACILITY & SECURITY DOCUMENTATION
Advising a UK financier in relation to its standard form documentation which was to form the basis for a securitisation program.
Advising financiers on transactions involving the provision of inventory facilities.
Drafting standard form finance and security documentation for various financiers and peer-to-peer platforms, including receivables financiers, banks, asset-based lenders, trade financiers and finance houses.
Advising in relation to the issuance and wording of bond instruments and related security.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Stephen Butler Law Firm.
CARRER
Ben qualified as a solicitor in 1983. Prior to joining Stephen Butler Law Firm in 1993, he worked at the following firms:
Gateley
Shakespeares Martineau
Eversheds
RECOGNITION
Associate Member of R3 (the Association of Business Recovery Professionals)…
