Travers Smith
It is not just law at Travers Smith. We treat our clients’ business as our business, their dispute as our dispute, their challenges as ours. Our clients know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, we will work as one of their team to get things done. We act for publicly-listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity clients, and other business enterprises involved in large and complex UK and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes. Our business comprises the following main practice areas: Alternative Asset Management, Competition, Corporate M&A and ECM, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Finance & Restructuring, Financial Services & Markets, Funds, Incentives & Remuneration, Pensions, Private Equity, Real Estate, Regulatory Investigations, Risk & Operational Regulatory, Technology & Commercial Transactions and Tax.
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NAV facilities to PERE funds
This In Practice article looks at the key features of net asset value facilities (NAV facilities) for private equity real estate funds and discusses some of the points of difference when compared to NAV facilities for private equity buyout funds.
29 SEP 2025Supreme Court motor finance commission ruling: what next for lenders?
In this In Practice article we consider what comes next, after the Supreme Court judgment on secret commission payments in motor vehicle finance transactions.
29 SEP 2025Specialty finance to securitisation
In this In Practice article, the authors set out ten key points of difference between specialty finance and securitised warehouse structures.
27 JUN 2025Beware minority shareholders: lending to the professional services sector
This In Practice article focuses on lender considerations when lending to a group with significant minority shareholdings, focusing on examples with borrowers in the professional services sector.
6 MAY 2025Car finance commission arrangements: implications for speciality finance transactions
In this In Practice article the authors explore the impact of consumer claims for rebate of commission on speciality finance transactions.
13 JAN 2025Advising a guarantor
In this In Practice article James Bell looks at issues to consider when protecting the guarantor’s position in finance transactions and how that might be negotiated.
28 JUN 2024Financing real estate-backed operating businesses: documentary pitfalls
In this In Practice article the authors examine the potential issues that can arise when using the LMA Facility Agreement for Real Estate Finance Investment Transactions (LMA REF Facility Agreement) as the basis for documenting credit facilities made available to real estate-backed operating businesses.
1 JUL 2021Deal contingent derivatives: managing risk in M&A transactions
In this In Practice article the authors consider the key terms of deal contingent derivatives.
1 OCT 2021Core-plus infrastructure and leveraged financing: the continued convergence of terms
In this In Practice article, the author sets out some of those terms more commonly being sought by infrastructure funds for the debt financing of their assets, which traditionally would have been more commonly seen in the PE/leveraged buyout debt market.
1 MAY 2022Recurring revenue-based deals
In this article the authors examine recurring revenue transactions in the UK and European markets – what are they, who are they for, how they work, what are the key features and market trends?
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