Mr Chris Jones > Gateley Legal > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Gateley Legal Offices
ONE ELEVEN
EDMUND STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B3 2HJ
England
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Mr Chris Jones
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Chris acts for lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions. He has extensive experience and is highly knowledgeable in corporate/leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset-based lending and structured finance. His clients have included major UK and international banks, challenger banks and other alternative lenders, debt investment funds and private equity houses, together with corporate borrower clients in a wide variety of sectors and industries.
Chris has significant asset finance experience, principally involving aviation and rail, where clients have included the Department for Transport, transport specialist banks, and owner-lessors and operating lessees of planes and rolling stock.
Chris also has a strong working knowledge of restructuring, enforcement and insolvency matters.
Chris studied Law at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2003. He qualified as a Solicitor in 2007 and spent the first eight years of his career with the London office of a “Magic Circle” law firm. This period included client secondments to the securitisation transaction execution team of a major international bank and to the in-house legal team of a rolling stock owner-lessor. More recently, Chris was a Partner with an award-winning regional law firm before joining Gateley Legal in January 2020.
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Finance > Banking and finance
(Next Generation Partners)Gateley Legal is vastly experienced in the areas of private equity and acquisition finance, as well as acting for various asset-based lending (ABL) funders in the market. Team leader Andrew Madden is involved with structured finance and corporate lending deals, including leveraged buy-outs, project finance and restructuring. Chris Jones handles a variety of financing transactions, being particularly experienced in real estate and structured finance among other areas, while senior associate Alison Davidson-Cox specialises in acquisition, corporate and leveraged finance. Senior associate Sharon Malhi advises on corporate banking transactions, with an emphasis on real estate and development finance transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners West Midlands > Finance > Banking and finance
- Banking and finance West Midlands > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Planning
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Real estate > Construction
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Employment > Employment
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Pensions
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation