Reshma leads our debt finance practice, with over 20 years’ experience acting for lenders including UK clearing banks and investment funds, and corporate borrowers.
Reshma specialises in all aspects of secured lending and has extensive experience in leveraged and acquisition finance. She is used to negotiating complex syndicated multi-currency loan facilities, amendment and restatement agreements and refinancing of facilities, all forms of security, security trustee arrangements, mezzanine finance and priority and intercreditor documentation and private placement facilities.
Reshma has particular expertise in social housing finance and has advised a number of housing associations and lenders on their funding arrangements. She also works on cross-border transactions involving an English law element.
Reshma also advises corporate, and lender clients in distress situations including undertaking security reviews and restructuring of loans and security. She regularly works closely with our corporate, real estate and regulatory lawyers when advising on corporate debt transactions and has experience in project managing such transactions.
Expertise
- Debt finance
- Social Housing finance
- Acquisition and leveraged finance
- Development finance
- Real estate finance
- Development finance
- Mezzanine finance
- Renewables finance
- Distressed finance
- Cross-border financing and structuring
Recent work
Private equity investors
Advising private equity investors on their funding arrangements for corporate acquisitions, often involving complex debt structures, loan note security and intercreditor deeds.
Welsh Government
Advising Welsh Government in connection with their lending to registered social landlords under their Innovative Housing Programme (IHP) and related schemes. Reshma drafted and negotiated loan and security documentation for this scheme working closely with the real estate team.
Social housing
Acting for social housing sector clients, both in Wales and England, on their funding arrangements with lenders.
Lenders and borrowers
Acting for both lenders and borrowers on development loan facilities for the acquisition and/or development of properties. Additionally, acting for lenders including many major clearing banks, mezzanine lenders and corporate borrowers in relation to funding for acquisitions and management buy outs.
Finance and development funding in healthcare
Advising on renewables finance and development funding in the context of the healthcare sector including the acquisition and development of care homes and healthcare centres across England and Wales.
Insolvency specialists
Advising insolvency specialists, banks and other funders on all corporate and insolvency related aspects.
Languages
- Gujarati
