DLA Piper has an extensive global platform in which London is a key centre for structured finance. Global co-chair of the financial services sector Mark Dwyer handles a broad array of banking and debt capital markets transactions, as well as complex derivatives and structured finance matters. He is currently advising ISDA on the update of an IFI legal opinion on Nordic Investment Bank.
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- 'Marcus Lovatt understands our business and our needs very well and is able to find good compromises workable for both ourselves and our clients.'
Key clients
- Morgan Stanley & Co International Plc
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK
- Together Financial Services Limited
- NatWest Markets
- Plata Finance Limited
- ISDA
- YouGov plc
- Morgan Stanley & Co International Plc
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK
- Together Financial Services Limited
- NatWest Markets
- Plata Finance Limited
- ISDA
- YouGov plc
- Morgan Stanley & Co International Plc
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK
- Together Financial Services Limited
- NatWest Markets
- Plata Finance Limited
- ISDA
Work highlights
Advised the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on its participation in The Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP).
Advised Together Money on all derivatives aspects of the refinancing of its existing GBP 1.5 billion Charles Street private warehouse facility into two new revolving warehouse facilities.
Advised Plata Finance Limited, an unsecured consumer lending platform which launched in 2022, on all derivatives aspects of its inaugural public securitisation – a £250,000,000 securitisation of unsecured consumer loans made to UK borrowers.
Practice head
Mark Dwyer