The fund finance team at Simmons & Simmons represents financial institutions, credit funds and fund sponsors on a broad range of fund finance facilities. Alongside its securitisation team, the practice has acted on innovative fund finance securitisations. Jen Yee Chan is at the helm of the team and handles subscription line facilities, including those that are ESG-linked, across the full breadth of asset classes. John Sayers specialises in NAV, ABL, and hybrid financings, with an emphasis on funds in the real estate and energy sector.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The team, led by Jen Yee Chan, is extremely efficient, technically brilliant and personable. The team provides a more personal legal experience by keeping the same team members on clients to ensure the relationship remains strong and efficiencies are carried through different deals.’

  • ‘Great communication, attentive, easy to get hold of, responsive, personable, technically brilliant.’

  • ‘The Simmons fund finance team are the go-to team for all of our fund finance facilities across several vintages. What makes them unique is their joined up and commercial approach across their fund finance and funds team both in London and Luxembourg.’

  • ‘Jen Yee gives clear and pragmatic advice with helpful suggestions as to how best to achieve our aims. As she sees a lot of the market from both the lender and borrower perspective, we especially value her guidance around what the market and our peers are doing.’

  • ‘Jen Yee Chan leads an excellent lender side focused practice - covering everything from sublines to NAV, GP lines and more bespoke products. The influence of the funds practice in Simmons is obvious in the team's ability to analyse and understand LPA provisions in the structuring stages of a deal.’

  • ‘Jen Yee Chan is well known in the industry and trusted by banks in the London and European markets for her intellectual analysis of deals, and her commercial and pragmatic approach. ’

Key clients

  • OakNorth Bank

Work highlights

Advising OakNorth Bank as lender on £50,000,000 liquidity facilities to Paloma Capital as borrower, a leading entrepreneurial private equity real estate investor which has raised over £520m of wholly discretionary capital.
Advising OakNorth Bank as lender on a subscription line facility to Palamon Capital as borrower, a leading UK-based European mid-market private equity firm.

Lawyers

Leading partners

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Practice head

Jen Yee Chan

Other key lawyers

John Sayers