Mr Tom Speirs > Addleshaw Goddard > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Addleshaw Goddard Offices
EXCHANGE TOWER
19 CANNING STREET
EDINBURGH
EH3 8EH
United Kingdom
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Mr Tom Speirs
Work Department
Banking and finance.
Position
Tom specialises in banking and finance work and acts for all of the major banks in the UK on transactional and advisory work. He has worked on a large number of corporate and banking projects with a broad range of capital values. He has been instrumental in ensuring the firm remains on the panels of most UK banks as well as a number of European and other overseas banks. Tom is regarded by a number of lenders as a market leader in financing businesses which provide frontline and associated healthcare support services. His substantial catalogue of completed transactions in this field is testament to his experience and quality of service.
Career
Trained Maclay Murray Spens; qualified 1997; partner HBJ Gateley 2007 to date, head of graduate recruitment 2010 to 2014; head of BNF 2014 to 2017.
Memberships
Law Society of Scotland.
Education
University of Dundee (1995 LLB Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Finance > Banking and finance
Addleshaw Goddard fields a ‘great banking team’ with a ‘perfect track record’ dealing with a wide scope of banking and financing matters with clients that including major clearing banks, global investment firms, and leading industry players, particularly in the real estate and energy spaces. Spearheading the practice is Alan Shanks
, who has over two decades of experience handling acquisition and project finance transactions. Tom Speirs is the go-to in the firm for lenders and borrowers seeking financing advice in relation to health and social care matters, while the ‘pragmatic’ Addi Spiers acts for banks and funds on real estate deals. Gaenor Cassell has recently acted as borrower counsel on a range of credit facility agreements and refinancings, and John Waller focuses on real estate finance work. Kimberley Forman joined from Brodies LLP in November 2023 and Euan Cluness and Peter Smartt departed to TLT in 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Transport
- Real estate > Construction
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Local government
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property