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Laura Lister is completely committed to her clients – doing whatever is required to get a transaction over the line. Laura Lister is brilliant at co-ordinating multiple parties in complex transactions and bringing all the threads together.

Laura is a Partner in our Banking & Finance Group, bringing over 14 years of experience in transactional finance. She specialises in advising corporate borrowers on a wide range of debt finance matters, including acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate investment and development funding, refinancing, and general corporate borrowing.

Laura’s expertise spans complex transactions in sectors such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity. Her responsiveness, technical precision, and ability to manage high-value deals under tight deadlines is valued by clients including Renew Holdings PLC, Reward Funding, and Endless LLP.

Awards:

  • Named Next Generation Partner by Legal 500.
  • Ranked Band 3 in Chambers & Partners.
Laura specialises in:
Banking & Finance, Banks & Alternative Lenders, Private Equity
Experience

Reward Funding: Advised on a £360m debt package involving funding structures from four different funders.

Renew Holdings PLC: Advised in relation to the refinance and increase of its £140m facilities from HSBC, NatWest and Barclays to support its growth strategy.

Acted for a national joint venture developer on the acquisition of four large sites for the development of housing funded by Heritable Development Finance.

Acted for a national property investor, manager and developer on a range of projects, including joint venture structures with pension schemes and Singapore-based investors, followed by the refinancing of its facilities.

Evans Property Group: Advising on amendments to its £230m facilities with NatWest and Barclays to support their broad commercial, industrial, logistics, leisure and residential portfolio.

Acted for a multinational business in relation to the UK elements of a multi-jurisdictional $107,000,000 senior and mezzanine funding structure.

Laura Lister is a first-class banking lawyer: bright, attentive, responsive, personable and gives clear advice.

Laura is a pleasure to work with. She works incredibly hard and is very focused on getting the task done.

Laura Lister is completely committed to her clients – doing whatever is required to get a transaction over the line. Laura Lister is brilliant at co-ordinating multiple parties in complex transactions and bringing all the threads together.

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