Dentons has ‘a strong senior team with market recognised profile and significant technical expertise’. The firm continues to invest in expanding its London group to handle an increasingly diverse array of work. Clients praise the ’tenacity, ingenuity and commercial nous’ of the group led by Peter Voisey and Edward Hickman, who together handle a huge range of structured finance work, including public and private securitisation, covered bonds alongside warehousing transactions, loan portfolio sales, and trade finance securitisation. Voisey recently handed a £500m RMBS programme update for Coventry Building Society. Hickman also works on innovative transactions such as carbon credit securitisations. Toby Gray is a key adviser to pension funds, hedge funds and insurers, and Catriona ’Kitty’ Lloyd is one of the most experienced corporate trustee lawyers in the City. Alex Moezi joined from A&O Shearman in early 2025, bringing extensive experience in public and private deals involving mortgage loans, credit cards, consumer loans and auto loans, as well as trade receivables.
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Testimonials
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‘Dentons debt and derivatives finance team have supported my firm as we completed two material infrastructure debt and derivatives portfolio sales. The underlying deals were legacy deals with a multitude of documentation and collateral flaws. Dentons went to great lengths to uncover the flaws, rectify the majority and most importantly, help my firm market and trade the deals despite the flaws which could not be rectified. Denton's, in my view, displayed tenacity, ingenuity and commercial nous balanced with solid legal support.’
‘Edward Hickman personified the Dentons approach to the transactions; tenacious, creative, commercially aware balanced with solid legal support all delivered with impeccable politeness.’
‘The Dentons securitisation team is highly professional. They are able to deal with complicated structures that cover multiple jurisdictions (ie, UK, Italy) with complex set up (ie, securitization SPVs). They have a depth of team: during the time that we worked together, one of the junior lawyer left the firm but the team filled the spot with a back up and ensured a smooth transition without slowing down the transaction.’
‘UK Team: Edward Hickman and Stjepan Klinar - they know their area of expertise very well and are able to give timely and professional advice to get the deal done.’
- 'Strong senior team with market recognised profile and significant technical expertise.'
- 'Kitty Lloyd and Jill Barraclough-Morrow are both excellent and highly dependable. They can be relied on to give strong, commercially minded advice and to push points forward on our behalf.'
Key clients
- Coventry Building Society
- Principality Building Society
- Shawbrook Bank
- BNP Paribas
- Perenna Bank
- Pepper Money
- HSBC Bank
- GB Bank
- Birmingham Bank
- Atom Bank plc
- Deutsche Bank
- Co-operative Bank
- Bluestone Mortgages
- Banco Santander
- DBRS
- April Mortgages
- National Counties Building Society
- US Bank
Work highlights
Advised Skipton Building Society, as issuer, on its £777,780,000 public prime residential mortgage-backed securitisation, Darrowby No. 6 plc.
Advising Principality Building Society, as issuer, on its £706,522,000 public residential mortgage backed securitisation transaction, Friary No. 9 plc.
Advising HSBC and BNP Paribas and joint arrangers and JLMs on the €345 million Pembroke 3 Property Finance DAC public CMBS.
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Practice head
Peter Voisey; Edward Hickman
Other key lawyers
Catriona ‘Kitty’ Lloyd; Toby Gray; Jill Barraclough-Morrow; Stjepan Klinar