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Wedlake Bell LLP

52 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, WC1R 4LR, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7395 3000
Fax:
Fax 020 7395 3100
DX:
166 LONDON CHANCERY
Web:
www.wedlakebell.com
Email:
London WC1R, London WC1R

Hilary Platt

Tel:
Work +44 20 7395 3000
Email:
Wedlake Bell LLP

Work Department

Finance.

Position

Hilary is ?head of the finance team and specialises in asset and acquisition finance. She has acted for financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a wide range of syndicated and bilateral financings often involving cross-border elements. The primary focus of her practice since joining Wedlake Bell has been on property financing (for both investment and development purposes, increasingly in the rapidly expanding healthcare sector) and acquisition financing. She also has considerable experience of borrowing base facilities, having acted for an oil and gas exploration company on numerous financings.

Career

Trained Freshfields; qualified 1992; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London and Paris offices 1990-97; moved to Wedlake Bell 1997; partner 2000.

Languages

French.

Member

Women in Banking and Finance.

Education

Strathearn School, Belfast; Merton College, Oxford (1989 Law 2(1)); Guildford College of Law (1990 Law Society finals).

Leisure

Theatre, music, swimming.

Practice Areas

Banking (non-contentious); Finance - asset; Finance - property

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