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Natalie Swales
Position
Natalie is a Partner in our Leeds Banking Team who specialises in non-contentious transactional finance work. Natalie primarily specialises in social and affordable housing finance (including sustainability-linked lending) and project finance.
Natalie has a breadth of experience advising borrowers, lenders, private bond arrangers and trustees on a range of financial arrangements, including private bond issues, secured and unsecured lending, facility restructurings, sustainability-linked lending, intra-group funding agreements, joint venture arrangements, group re-financings emanating from merger/group re-organisations and interest rate derivatives.
In addition to negotiating facility/bond documentation, Natalie also advises on security arrangements, working closely alongside the Property Charging Team.
Career
Prior to joining Devonshires Solicitors, Natalie was an Associate in the Banking Team at Addleshaw Goddard LLP.
Education
Natalie graduated from the University of Manchester with an LLB in Law, before completing her LPC at BPP in Leeds.
Personal
Outside of work Natalie enjoys travelling, spending time with her young family, exploring the Yorkshire Dales and caring for her miniature Shetland ponies.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Social housing: finance
(Next Generation Partners)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.