Julian Barker > Devonshires Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Devonshires Solicitors LLP Offices
30 FINSBURY CIRCUS
LONDON
EC2M 7DT
England
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Julian Barker
Work Department
Banking and Governance
Position
Julian is a partner and head of the banking and capital markets team. The team is recognised in Chambers 2015 as ‘of the highest standards’ when it comes to acting for borrowers. He advises on all aspects of finance made available to registered providers, including bond issues (wholesale and retail, secured and unsecured), private placements, syndicated and bilateral loans, the funding of LSVTs, PFI funding, intra-group funding and interest rate derivatives and related security. He also advises on security trustee arrangements in connection with the group funding arrangements of registered providers.
Notable transactions include acting for numerous registered providers on their own name bond issues, including Circle Anglia, Genesis, London and Quadrant, Notting Hill, Moat, Amicus Horizon, Hyde, Saffron Housing Trust, Clarion, Great Places, Radian, Together Housing Group, WM Housing Group, Southern Housing, BPHA, Thrive Homes, Yorkshire Housing and Swan, acting for A2Dominion Group on its unsecured retail bond issues and wholesale bond issues; acting for Catalyst Housing Group, Bromford, Newlon, Suffolk Housing Society, Regenda, Waterloo, Aldwyck and Orbit Group on their private placements; advising numerous registered providers on funding for lending loans and borrowing from THFC and Affordable Housing Finance plc, acting for numerous registered providers in connection with their group refinancings.
A natural sciences graduate from Durham University, Julian completed his legal training at Simmons and Simmons. From there he went on to a role in the general banking groups at Allen & Overy and then to Eversheds’ Cambridge office where he acted for both banks and borrowers on various acquisitions, MBOs and property financing transactions.
Career
Articled Simmons & Simmons; qualified 1996; joined Devonshires 2005; partner Devonshires 2007.
Memberships
Law Society.
Education
Durham University; College of Law.
Leisure
Sport including cricket, hockey, rugby and golf.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Social housing: finance
(Hall of Fame)For borrowers in the social housing sector, Devonshires Solicitors LLP is a go-to firm, with a large volume of registered providers in its impressive client base. The practice offers clients support with raising debt finance from banks or through the capital markets, as well as with ESG loans, borrowing from local authorities and funds, and joint venture funding arrangements. The ‘deeply knowledgeable’ Julian Barker
sits at the helm of the banking and capital markets team with expertise in bond issues, private placements, and syndicated and bilateral loans, and Sharon Kirkham chairs the securitisation practice with significant experience in refinancing transactions. Gary Grigor and Chris Drabble head up the Leeds-based banking and securitisation teams respectively. Other key members of the team include Natalie Swales, who specialises in non-contentious transactional finance work, Rachel Orgill-Harris, who is especially skilled in advising issuers on high-value public bond issues and bond programmes, and Alice Overton, who is sought after by housing association treasury teams.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Social housing: finance London > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers