Mr Dougall Molson > Fieldfisher > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Clients of Fieldfisher are ‘very impressed with how proactive and responsive the team is‘. Guy Usher is head of the financial markets and products group, which is home to the securitisation team, in which Alex Campbell is the standout practitioner. Campbell, who has ‘ extensive industry knowledge and is clear and concise in his advice‘, and Marsili Hale, who leads the loan and mortgage servicing practice, acted for Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc in the successful restructurings of the Great Hall Mortgages No. 1 plc Series 2006-1, Series 2007-1 and Series 2007-2 RMBS transactions, which together have a value of £1.27bn. Peter Knust, who joined from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in 2023, ‘provides well rounded, timely and sound advice‘ to corporate trust and corporate service provider clients. Key partner Stephen Moller frequently advises fintech companies and investment managers on receivables financings, while Dougall Molson  (who is ‘innovative, hardworking and has a structurer’s mindset‘) handles private, ABS, true sale and synthetic securitisations.

Fieldfisher‘s financial markets and products group, in which the trade finance team sits, ‘combines a wide range of expertise across different disciplines, which helps clients to reach agreements that will stand the test of time‘. The firm handles trade finance arrangements not only in relation to commodities, but also other sectors and asset classes, and its work spans prepayment finance, documentary and standby letters of credit, export and pre-export facilities, reserve base lending, borrowing base, inventory finance and receivables finance. Practice head Oliver Abel Smith focuses on trade and commodity finance and asset finance, particularly in the energy and natural resources sector. Structured finance partner Dougall Molson, who assisted Invesco with the update of its precious metals-backed exchange traded certificates programme. and debt finance specialist Stephen Moller are closely involved with the practice.