Squire Patton Boggs is home to a team of ABL specialists who are equipped to handle financial services, retail and energy-focused financings. Practice head Paula Laird advises on facility amendments and restatements for various international clients and also offers significant expertise in the receivables finance space. Zenia Kumar and Bradley Harris are also recommended. Ranajoy Basu joined the firm in October 2025 from McDermott Will & Schulte.
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- Strong market presence and expertise in ABL. Always available and manages to navigate and balance credit requirements with the commercial aspects of a transaction.
Key clients
- RBS Invoice Finance
- Bridgepoint
- Guggenheim
- Bank of America, N.A.
- Shawbrook Bank
- BZ Commercial Finance Designated Activity Company
- HSBC Invoice Finance
- Cooperative Rabobank U.A.
- Essar Oil
- Deutsche Bank
- FGI
- Callodine Commercial Finance
Work highlights
Acted for Bank of America, N.A. across 12 different jurisdictions in the financing of Weber Blackstone. As UK counsel, SPB acted as lead/managing counsel for legal counsel in the jurisdictions of Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland.
Acted for a private credit lender in relation to its loan to the purchaser (Davidson Kempner) of a global energy group which provided services and products, primarily containers, for use in the energy and off-shore industry.
Acted as English counsel to RBS in connection with an asset-based lending facility agreement for a UK business credit provider, IGF, advising on the original deal together with amendments and restatements since then.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Paula Laird
Other key lawyers
Zenia Kumar; Bradley Harris; Ranajoy Basu