Banking & Finance Lawyers
We work with borrowers and lenders to help navigate every stage of their financing transactions and ensure a smooth, effective and commercially driven approach.
Our specialist banking and finance lawyers handle a wide range of event-driven finance transactions alongside dealing with cyclical and ongoing financing needs, covering general corporate lending, leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance (investment and development), debt restructuring, asset-based lending and receivables financing.
On the lender side, we work with a number of the UK’s leading high street banks (such as NatWest, RBS, HSBC, Santander and Virgin Money) as well as challenger banks (such as OakNorth Bank and Close Brothers Group), debt funds and private banks.
On the borrower side, our clients include an extensive range of corporates, from small SMEs and fast-growth businesses to PLCs and large corporates.
We finance most aspects of corporate lending transactions from inception to completion, providing commercial and practical advice. Our experience in acting for such a breadth of businesses across all major sectors of the UK economy — as well as on both the borrower and lender sides — means that we offer seamless support as well as key insights into the drivers and challenges faced on both sides of lending transactions. This enables us to cut through any issues during negotiations in a timely and effective manner while being practical, responsive and simply great people to work with.
In 2025/26, we handled over £1.5bn in banking transactions and have particular specialisms in housing finance and litigation funding, as well as delivering core banking and finance transactions.
Our team contains experts who are recognised at the top of their fields in leading legal directory The Legal 500, including in its prestigious Hall of Fame.
To discuss your banking and finance needs, call 0333 004 4488, email hello@brabners.com or complete our contact form.
“Brabners' broad banking and finance practice is well placed to advise both lender- and borrower-side mandates, encompassing leveraged and structured finance, acquisition and real estate finance, asset-based lending and mezzanine finance.”
The Legal 500 2026
“Richard Cowan is an excellent, hard-working and committed lawyer who always puts clients’ commercial goals first. An excellent draftsman and very easy to work with. Calm under pressure and always ready to adapt to the moving requirements of ongoing negotiations... allow[ing] the deal to 'get done' with minimum fuss and wasted time.”
Client feedback, The Legal 500
“Andrew O’Mahony and Lauren Swanick... I can’t sing their praises enough. No matter the situation, they're always efficient and on-hand to help. With their can-do attitude and extensive knowledge, they provide comprehensive advice quickly. It’s a pleasure working with them.”
Head of Underwriting, Hope Capital
“Responsive and quickly understood our commercial risks and drivers in what was a complicated and rather unusual deal.”
Client feedback, The Legal 500
Accredited, 'Hall of Fame' banking & finance lawyers
Our “tight-knit” and “brilliant to work with” team brings several decades of experience and deep understanding of banks and budget processes. We’re problem solvers who excel in anticipating issues and finding workarounds to drive transactions to signing and funding.
It's led by Andrew O’Mahony, a vastly experienced banking and finance lawyer recognised in The Legal 500’s Hall of Fame, which acknowledges “law firm partners who are at the pinnacle of the profession” and “have received constant praise from their clients for continued excellence”. Andrew brings specialist expertise in advising a wide variety of lenders (including clearing banks, alternative and secondary lenders and debt funds) as well as corporate borrowers (in both the private and social housing sectors). He also advises on leveraged and structured finance (including MBOs, MBI's and IBO's), real estate finance (investment and development) and general corporate banking, refinancing and reorganisations.
Experienced Partner Richard Cowan has acted for all of the major UK high street banks as well as a wide range of corporate borrowers and regularly handles matters with complex and international elements. Richard is recognised as a Leading Partner in The Legal 500, which acknowledges “the strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike”. Client feedback from The Legal 500 praises Richard for being "assertive where needed" and having "traded commercial points well to achieve our key requirements", while Chambers and Partners recognises him as a “brilliant transactional specialist”.
Legal Director Lucy Porter-Grocott brings significant experience in acting on high-value and complex banking transactions, having previously spent several years at an international law firm.
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