Banking and finance

Your challenges

For our clients, whether borrowers or lenders, reaching the stage where funds can be advanced has never been so complicated, potentially time consuming and uncertain. Therefore you need your lawyers to understand the commercial background, to act quickly and pragmatically and to help you get over the finishing line.

Achieving your ambitions

Whatever your finance needs, we know we can help. Our clients include national and international lenders, specialist financiers and borrowers drawn from a wide variety of sectors, both in this country and abroad.

What our clients tell us they need is timely and commercial advice, certainty of cost and timing, delivered by experienced lawyers who invest time in getting to know their business. This is what we strive to achieve each and every time we work with you.

The strength you need

Our team specialises solely in banking and finance law. We also work closely with specialists in other teams to ensure you get a complete service. Clients that we have recently helped include:

  • Archant Limited
  • Aviva Plc
  • Barclays Bank Plc
  • Brown Shipley
  • Central Trust Plc
  • HSBC Bank Plc
  • KBC Bank N.V. 
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Nationwide Building Society
  • Santander UK Plc
  • Svenska Handelsbanken
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
  • University of Essex
  • WorldPay 

Lawyers you can trust

Our expertise and the strength of our team has been recognised by us being ranked as the leading banking and finance team in the eastern region for each of the last five years. This position is backed up by both the comments of our clients: “the work is excellent and Mills & Reeve really holds its own with the London firms we are used to” and our peers: “Mills & Reeve is unquestionably the dominant force in the region and rivals acknowledge it is clearly the one to beat”. Increasingly, as our reputation grows, we are expanding our client base into London and beyond.

Banking and finance
Banking and finance