Richard Fletcher > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Macfarlanes LLP Offices
20 CURSITOR STREET
LONDON
EC4A 1LT
England
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Richard Fletcher
Work Department
Finance
Position
Richard advises financial institutions and corporates on a range of financing matters. He focuses on fund finance, speciality finance and structured finance including the structured finance and debt capital markets aspects of project finance, infrastructure finance and restructurings.
His work includes advising on:
- leverage facilities and investor call bridge facilities;
- receivables financing, asset based lending and speciality finance;
- structured financings and structured products;
- RMBS, CMBS, CLOs / CDOs and whole business securitisations;
- debt capital markets issues, including bonds, MTNs, high yield bonds, convertibles and exchangeables;
- project bonds and infrastructure financings; and
- refinancings and restructurings.
Career
Qualified 2006; partner 2015
Lawyer Rankings
London > Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
(Next Generation Partners)Advising across a range of a mainstream and alternative asset classes and on the full lifecycle of funds, with the use of AI, the ‘highly knowledgeable and experienced’ team at Macfarlanes LLP regularly advises on investor call bridge facilities, NAV facilities, GP support facilities, equity bridge facilities and equity commitment finance structures. The team is jointly headed up by the ‘top-notch players’ Andrew Perkins, whose focus lies in fund and leverage finance from the lender perspective and Richard Fletcher, who also leads the structured finance and securitisation practice and excels in the structuring of debt finance into a range of investment funds.
London > Finance > Securitisation
Macfarlanes LLP has ‘a very efficient team that can work to challenging timetables and always keeps clients updated on progress‘. The firm handles a broad range of work, encompassing residential and commercial mortgage, consumer loans, trade receivables and whole business deals. The firm acts for banks, alternative lenders and, increasingly, credit funds. On fund finance matters, Richard Fletcher ‘is always available to offer sound practical advice and seems to be well respected by counterparts‘. He advised Venn Partners LLP on a £100m tap issuance of bonds. Head of the finance group Andrew Perkins is a key adviser to banks, alternative lenders and credit funds. Among the senior associates, Kelly Wilson and Scottish-qualified Ryan Moore play key roles in the practice.
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
Macfarlanes LLP provides ‘strong technical expertise, commercially pragmatic advice, and great value for money‘. The firm has one of the most prominent buy-side practices in the London market, and its work spans prime brokerage, derivatives, repos, clearing, and debt trading. Will Sykes (who has ‘a deep and unparalleled understanding of prime brokerage and financing documentation‘) and Chris Acton (who is ‘able to cut through the technical rules to give pragmatic and commercial advice‘) lead the practice. Acton and senior counsel Rob Daniell assisted Spanish defence and technology company SAPA Placencia Holding with an equity collar confirmation entered into with ING Group in order to partially finance the acquisition of shares of Spanish IT and defence systems company Indra Sistemas .Richard Fletcher, who advises numerous financial institutions, corporates, fund managers, investors, servicers and trustees, and hedge fund adviser Christine Long also play central roles in the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Fund finance London > Investment fund formation and management
- Derivatives and structured products London > Finance
- Securitisation London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Real estate > Residential property
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Employment > Immigration
- Private client > Court of protection