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Geldards LLP

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Geldards LLP handles funding arrangements, facility agreements and finance documentation, with a focus on advising educational institutions and councils. Noted for her ‘extensive experience of financing structuring and documentation’, Jenny Chatten leads the practice from Nottingham, and often advises on facility agreements and renewable energy funding issues. Sarah Bailey-Parke provides assistance on negotiating security documents and finance documentation.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘A very good one-stop shop covering all aspects of non-recourse financing as well as corporate matters, equity funding, acquisitions and commercial. Excellent knowledge of the topics and a lot of very valuable deal experience.’

  • ‘For financing matters, Jenny Chatten is excellent. She has a deep knowledge and extensive experience of financing structuring and documentation. She drafts documents quickly and elegantly, nothing nugatory, obscure or too verbose. She is also very good at understanding issues during negotiations and creative in proposing solutions. She is also able to drive the process to the close without protracted discussions and delays.'

  • 'The team offers broadly based commercially pragmatic banking and finance advice which draws on the team’s knowledge of corporate transactions.'

  • 'Jenny Chatten is an experienced corporate deal maker as well as a highly competent banking and finance lawyer. Her banking and finance advice is pragmatic and commercial.'

Key clients

  • Clowes Developments (UK) Limited
  • HSBC UK Bank PLC
  • Lloyds Bank PLC
  • Newark & Sherwood District Council
  • Derby City Council
  • Wrekin Products Limited
  • Neath College
  • Pembrokeshire College

Work highlights

Advised the Sofa Brands Group on the extension and revision of the Group’s existing facility agreement.
Advised Pembrokeshire and Neath Colleges on their funding agreements with The Crown Estate, in relation to Supply Chain Accelerator Fund.
Advised Derby City Council on the funding elements of the development of Becketwell Arena, Derby’s new £46m music arena.

Practice head

Jenny Chatten

Other key lawyers

Sarah Bailey-Parke