Clifford Chance’s team regularly handles complex cross-border financing transactions. The team’s expertise spans leveraged and acquisition finance, fund finance and private credit matters. Andrew Hutchins‘ workload includes cross-border leveraged transactions, leveraged and acquisition finance, and fund financing cases, while Matthew Truman advises on acquisition finance, syndicated lending and restructuring transactions across a variety of sectors including real estate, tech, and manufacturing. Thomas England specialises in complex financing transactions across a broad range of products. Chin Seng Chew has represented private credit funds, international banks and financial institutions, borrowers and sponsors. All aforementioned lead the team.
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Thomas England has more than 15 years of experience advising financial investors, financial institutions and corporate clients on finance and restructuring transactions across Asia-Pacific.
Thomas specialises in complex financing and restructuring transactions across a broad range of products including acquisition finance (including portfolio acquisitions and disposals); restructuring transactions; energy and resources financings (including reserve-based lending); asset-backed financings and other trade finance; direct lending, real estate financing, funds financing, margin lending and other structured finance, as well as syndicated lending. Tom has a broad exposure to a number of jurisdictions in the region, with a particular focus on India and Indonesia.
Career
Joined Clifford Chance 2006
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2008
Partner since 2018
Education
University of Nottingham (LLB) 2004
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Testimonials
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‘Clifford Chance has one of the strongest finance practices in Singapore.’
‘Thomas England is a standout star finance partner in Singapore who is a go-to lawyer for us on any complex and large cross-border transactional work due to his commercial acumen combined with a superb attention-to-detail.'
'A talented team of finance lawyers who ensure that the legal negotiations and documentation are completed to the highest of standards.’
‘This is a market-leading team with a wealth of experience in all types of banking and finance work.'
'The team is renowned for its technical expertise and commercial acumen, with a deep bench of lawyers and a high degree of partner availability, enabling it to execute complex transactions to challenging timetables. They are able to draw upon a consistently high-quality offering across the firm's global network and are a go-to practice for high-profile cross-border financing transactions.’
Thomas England stands out in the market for his technical excellence and attention to detail, combined with extensive experience in the region and strong commercial instincts. He is extremely hardworking and always visible on transactions.'
- 'Andrew Hutchins has over 20 years of experience working in Asia and is well-known for his client-friendly style and ability to deliver transactions on time and efficiently.'
- 'Chin Seng Chew has a growing reputation as a rising star in the banking and finance space and particularly in sponsor-side leveraged finance. He is very hard-working and easy to deal with.’
Key clients
- Ares
- Bain
- BOC Aviation Limited
- CVC
- KKR
- Macquarie Asset Management
- OMS Group
- Ominyat
- Permira
- SMBC
- Yondr Group
Work highlights
Advising Yondr Group on its over $900m project financing for a landmark hyperscale data centre in Malaysia.
Advised on various transactions involving BOCA in the past year, equating over 8bn in value.
Assisted KKR & the OMS Group on their $292.5m debt financing.