Mills & Reeve LLP has significantly strengthened their asset-based lending team with the addition of Manchester-based Simon Prendergast from Dentons in May 2024. Prendergast has longstanding experience on a range of ABL deals, including sponsor-backed deals, hybrid deals combining ABL lending facilities with senior debt and revolving borrowing base facilities. In the Norwich office, the ‘very knowledgeable’ Zak Virgin advises on non-contentious restructurings of ABL and on recovery and exit mandates. Alisia Gariban, who joined with Prendergast, supports the team across a wide array of financing transactions.
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‘Zak as our primary contact is great; he is always available and is flexible to ensure a transaction or situation is addressed promptly. He is collaborative and reasoned - supported by a great team.’
‘Working with Zak is great. He is very knowledgeable and professional, whilst also looking for a commercial outcome. He is responsive and attentive; I can trust him to act in my and my companies best interest, and that is something I value highly.’
‘Zak Virgin has been representing us for well over a decade and, in many ways, knows more about our business than sometimes we do. The appointment of Simon Prendergast in Manchester is only increasing M&R’s profile and offering in the sector.’
Key clients
- HSBC Invoice Finance (UK) Limited
- PNC Financial Services UK Ltd/PNC Bank N.A.
- Arbuthnot Commercial Asset Based Lending Limited
- Aymes International Limited
- Mercantile Trust Limited
- Webster Bank N.A.
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Practice head
Simon Prendergast
Other key lawyers
Zak Virgin; Alisia Gariban