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Addleshaw Goddard LLP ‘provides fantastic service’. The firm recently completed a number of stock transfers and refinancings, and advised several banks on The Guinness Trust’s £490m reorganisation. Key clients include Santander, Barclays and Prudential. Head of banking Richard Papworth, head of social housing Lee Shankland, managing associate Steven Mackie and legal director Chris Drabble are all recommended.

Devonshires’ ‘first-class and integrated’ practice acted on a number of bond issues, and also assisted Orbit Housing Group in relation to a £100m loan. Practice head Julian Barker and chief executive Andrew Cowan are highly respected, as is Sharon Kirkham.

Trowers & Hamlins LLP ‘concentrates on the brief’. It advised Brighton & Hove Seaside Community Homes on funding the modernisation of 500 empty homes; assisted Sovereign Housing Group in restructuring its loan portfolio; and oversaw a £200m bond issuance for Peabody. Anna Clark and practice head Adrian Carter are recommended.

Clifford Chance is recommended for its ability to handle complex matters. The team acted for Prudential on the private placement of a catalyst bond, and advised seven lenders regarding a security trust structure. Despina Pantelia, Ruby Giblin and practice head Robert Smith are also recommended. Solar energy expert Angela Shepherd is ‘outstandingly good’.

Winckworth Sherwood’s ‘outstanding’ team encourages ‘challenging and thought-provoking debate’. It is advising Affinity Sutton Homes on property charging, using a security trustee; and recently negotiated two loan facilities for Worthing Homes. Practice head Louise Leaver is recommended, as are Patricia Umanna and James Duncan. Keith Jenkins is ‘able to generate unique solutions’.

Allen & Overy LLP’s ‘superb team’ is highly rated for its capital markets work, and handles all aspects of secured and unsecured bonds. Geoff Fuller is a ‘top-drawer’ adviser, and counsel Elizabeth Collett is also ‘exceptionally talented’. Greg Brown specialises in global loans.

Cobbetts LLP advised New Charter Housing Trust on refinancing its group loan with Nationwide and RBS. Practice head Paul Brown and Hugo Stephens are recommended.

Eversheds LLP acted as UK counsel for the investors in Metropolitan Housing Trust’s £40m US private placement. Department head Mitch Brown and associate Fraser Macrae are recommended.

K&L Gates LLP specialises in PPP/PFI work, such as advising Sustainable Communities for Leeds in its bid for the Little London, Beeston Hill and Holbeck project. Christian Major and Cathy Harris lead the team.

Pinsent Masons LLP hired new practice head Ian Roberts and associate Sarah Whitty from SNR Denton. It recently advised on the funding of the Gateways to Oldham Housing and Regeneration PFI. Kate Orviss is recommended.

Stephenson Harwood is advising Lloyds Bank on Devon & Cornwall Housing Association’s reorganisation. ‘Leading innovator’ Natalie Elphicke and associate Kate Higgins are recommended. Rebecca Carter and London projects head Jonathan Cripps joined the firm from Eversheds LLP.

Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP advised Derwent Living on the funding of a stock transfer from Home Group, using a sale and leaseback arrangement. Jonathan Cox heads the team.

Clients of Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP include Notting Hill Housing Association, Berkeley Homes, Octagon Housing and Aviva. Andrew Yates is recommended.

Clarke Willmott LLP acted for Paradigm in charging a portfolio of properties in relation to a bond issue with The Housing Finance Corporation.Anne Hayward heads the team.

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