Richard Leeming > Burges Salmon LLP > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Led by Andrew Eaton, Burges Salmon LLP‘s Bristol-based banking and finance team specialises in complex transactions for clients from a range of industries, with transport and renewable energy projects two notable recent areas of focus for the practice. Richard Leeming specialises in real estate finance, while Graham Soar‘s recent lender-side advise on secured loan facilities for renewable gas infrastructure fund is testament to his transactional capabilities. Rachael Ruane handles a wide range of corporate finance matters, often with a cross-border element. Katie Allen leads the team’s hotel financing work, while Victoria Allsopp brings her energy and infrastructure experience to bear on a number of high-profile matters for the firm.

Bristol-based Burges Salmon LLP advises alternative lenders in the mid-market space, and is known for its strength in hotel, student accommodation and healthcare asset classes, which are the focus of its lead partner, Paul Browne. Fellow senior partner Richard Leeming has a long track record acting for the majority of the UK’s clearing banks as well as investment banks, debt funds and private banks.

Based in Bristol but by no means limited to purely regional work, the ‘very friendly and knowledgeable’ team at Burges Salmon LLP handles national, and increasingly international work, for banks and borrowers particularly in areas of firmwide sector focus. Energy, infrastructure and real estate are particular sweet spots, with the team regularly engaged to provide bilateral and syndicated loans to facilitate projects/transactions in those industries. Restructuring and insolvency partner Andrew Eaton heads up the overarching banking and finance team that includes well-respected real estate finance practitioner Richard Leeming .