Chris Freeston > Freeths LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Freeths LLP Offices
CUMBERLAND COURT
80 MOUNT STREET
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 6HH
England
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Chris Freeston
Work Department
Commercial – national head of department and managing partner of the firm's Nottingham office.
Position
Partner specialising in all areas of finance, particularly property and project finance. Chris is head of the firm’s banking and finance team. Recent transactions include advising the issuer on a £100m mortgage bond issue, acting for the lender on enforcement and insolvency issues relating to indebtedness of approximately £180m secured against a portfolio of properties and advising Bridges Ventures on the £84m acquisition of a portfolio of offices from Regus Plc. Chris acts for investors, developers, development agencies and a number of lenders including ICG Longbow, HSBC, RBS, and Santander.
Career
Trained Linklaters; qualified 2002; associate Linklaters 2002-06; senior associate Freeths LLP 2006-09; partner 2009.
Memberships
Law Society.
Education
Nottingham High School; St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University (1998 MA (Cantab)).
Leisure
All sport, member of Radcliffe on Trent Golf Club.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Finance > Banking and finance
Freeths LLP is particularly recommended for acquisition, mezzanine, real estate, public sector and healthcare financing. It also frequently works with challenger banks and several overseas banks across Europe and the Middle East. Its development finance practice is led by Nottingham-based team head Chris Freeston and Katie Hillier. Senior associate Gary Richardson is active across all forms of lending. Other specialists include John Heaphy
, also in Nottingham, for acquisition finance, and Phil Baigent in Leicester for funding in the healthcare sector.
South West > Finance > Banking and finance
Freeths LLP‘s specific expertise in corporate lending, real estate finance and Islamic finance makes the practice an attractive address for players in the world of acquisition finance, challenger banks and funders, operators and investors in the healthcare sector. Chris Freeston oversees the firm’s national banking and finance practice from Nottingham, while the Bristol-based Ben Moylan is the practice’s key contact in the South West.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate