Richard Fletcher > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Asset managers, private equity firms, and credit funds are all routine features of Macfarlanes LLP‘s client list. The team has nurtured its distinct knowledge of credit funds, particularly concerning their gearing facilities. Alternative work sources include subscription lines, NAV facilities, and GP support facilities. Team head Andrew Perkins is key to the firm’s relationships with credit funds, advising on their finance requirements and critical deployment mandates. Richard Fletcher helps his clients structure subscription lines, GP facilities, Manco facilities, and NAVs into a variety of investment funds. Adam Caines was promoted to partner in April 2023.

Macfarlanes LLP is one of the leading firms for buy-side clients, though it also has a strong prime brokerage practice advising on documentation for UK and APAC transactions. The team led by Will Sykes, who acts in trading, hedging and financing transactions, and Chris Acton, who assists hedge funds, managed account platforms and proprietary trading houses, ‘has unparalleled market knowledge and is hugely commercial and pragmatic‘. Richard Fletcher has a broad practice advising financial institutions, corporates, fund managers, investors, servicers and trustees. Supporting the partners is a strong group of senior counsel, among them equity derivatives adviser Alex Coyne, securities finance and prime brokerage expert Rob Daniell, and hedge fund specialist Christine Long.

The structured finance group at Macfarlanes LLP has a ‘great combination of transactional and businesss skills and regulatory expertise‘. Lead partner Richard Fletcher is ‘an outstanding legal adviser with exceptional technical knowledge‘. Andrew Perkins, who heads the finance group, Kelly Wilson and Ryan Moore also play pivotal roles in the practice. Particularly well known for advising banks, alternative lenders and credit funds, the firm handles regulatory and transactional matters, notably residential and commercial mortgages, consumer loans, trade receivables and whole-business deals.