Practice:
Banking & Finance
Insolvency
Banking & Finance
1987-1992 employed barrister, Legal Department, Lloyds Bank Plc.
All aspects including:
- Mortgages, charges and debentures
- Guarantees & performance bonds
- Cheques & bills of exchange
- Letters of credit
- Hire-purchase & lease agreements
- Recovery of money paid by or to a lender
- Challenges under the Consumer Credit Act to regulated transactions
- Drafting loan, security and related documentation, especially Consumer Credit Act regulated lending (credit/debit cards, personal loans, regulated mortgage lending), mortgages, charges, debentures & guarantees.
Insolvency
- Claims by or against receivers
- Company administration & winding-up
- Bankruptcy & voluntary arrangements
Commercial
- Contractual disputes
- Especially claims relating to the sale or lease/hire of business assets.
Professional Negligence
- Claims against solicitors, valuers, brokers and other financial and technical advisers relating to financial transactions and projects