Matthew Harvey > gunnercooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

gunnercooke LLP
1 CORNHILL
LONDON
EC3V 3ND
England
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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Matthew is a very experienced finance lawyer with a very broad experience as a lending and security specialist providing legal advice and commercial solutions.  Matthew is commercially fluent and client focussed.

He has worked on numerous lending transactions for lenders and borrowers covering a range of products including asset finance, receivables finance, securitisations, general corporate lending and acquisition finance.  He has particular expertise in asset based structures including securitisations and other receivables based transactions, cross-border and off-balance sheet transactions, the financing of capital equipment, ranging from aircraft (including helicopters), marine assets, computers to vehicles, on lease and debt-based structures.

Matthew has built up an excellent number of clients and relationships which include UK and international banks, lessors, alternative lenders, finance houses, fintechs, manufacturing companies, energy generators.

Previous Law Firms

  • Gowling WLG, London: Head of Asset and Receivables Finance (2016 to 2023)
  • Dentons, London: Partner (2000 to 2016)

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Trade finance

Clients of gunnercooke LLP praise the firm’s ‘excellent product and market knowledge‘ and its ‘reliable and efficient‘ service. Specialist commodities and finance lawyers Marc Weisberger and Veronika Koroleva (who ‘provides exceptional work in developing documentation‘) lead the practice, which acts for lenders, borrowers and many other market participants, with a particular focus on alternative finance providers, international banks with a UK presence, and commodity traders. Since the arrival of Matthew Harvey from Gowling WLG in 2023,  Stephan Smoktunowicz joined from the same firm to add notable experience in receivables financing. The firm’s market-leading blockchain and crypto practice places it at the forefront of decentralised commodities trading platform initiatives.