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Mills & Reeve LLP Offices

Mills & Reeve LLP
1 St James Court
WHITEFRIARS
NORWICH
NR3 1RU
England
Visit website 0344 880 2666

Zak Virgin

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01603 693244 zak.virgin@mills-reeve.com

Work Department

Banking and finance.

Position

Partner in the finance team specialising in asset-based lending, acquisition finance and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency work. Zak recently led the team acting for PNC Business Credit on substantial asset-based lending facilities for the MBI of the cakes division of McCambridge Group Holdings plc backed by NBGI private equity. He led the teams advising the administrators of the Cardale group, the Brilliant Media group, Silver Spring Soft Drinks and Axminster Carpets on the sales of the businesses and assets issues relating to the administrators’ appointment, duties and distributions to creditors.

Career

Trained Mills & Reeve; qualified 2001; partner 2010 to date. Trainee solicitor, Mills & Reeve 1999-2001; solicitor 2001-03; senior solicitor 2003-06; associate 2006-10. Current directorships: governor, Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education 2006 to date.

Education

Caister High School, Caister, Norfolk; East Norfolk Sixth Form College, Gorleston, Norfolk; University of Nottingham (1997 LLB).

Leisure

Golf, football, cricket (playing and spectating).

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Finance > Banking and finance

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Zak Virgin –Mills & Reeve LLP

Mills & Reeve LLP‘s team delivers a ‘strong partner-led service‘ and has the deepest bench of banking and finance lawyers in East Anglia. The firm has the region’s only debt capital markets practice, which notably handled more than £1bn worth of public and private bonds in 2022. Cambridge-based practice head William Roles focuses on corporate and acquisition finance and is ‘the perfect lawyer to put in front of a potential client as he is always balanced, fair and well-reasoned in his approach’. Also in Cambridge, not-for-profit finance specialist Sarah Seed and principal associate Matthew Howling are names to note; both recently assisted The University of Hull with a £40m sustainability-linked Revolving Credit Facility and an £86m privately placed issue of green debt securities. Partner Laura Holdaway and principal associate Sarah Greenwood are the key contacts for real estate finance, whilst Bethany Webb is described as being ‘the dictionary definition of an up-and-coming lawyer’. In Norwich, Zak Virgin ‘provides consistent and clear advice‘ on asset-based lending, and borrower-side and government finance specialist Frances Churchard is also recommended.

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