Banking and Finance law

Lexsential assists its clients in banking and finance law matters, ranging from the most traditional banking contract issues to the structuring and restructuring of debts with the most innovative formulae of sustainable finance, including self-liquidating and limited recourse.

Our Banking and Finance Team supports lenders and borrowers in leveraged and acquisition finance transactions such as:

• mezzanine, mortgage and unsecured loans;
• debt syndication;
• pass-through credit operations;
• targeted financing;
• so-called “at-risk” loans (“a tutto rischio”); and
• securities lending operations,

and in any other aspect related to the security package and the regulatory profiles of the operations.

Structured Finance

Our Banking and Finance Team professionals have deepened, over years of experience, their expertise in the construction of traditional securitisation transactions and synthetic securitisations of loans and other underlyings (tranched and untranched); ReoCos and covered bonds (pursuant to Italian law no. 130/1999); mini-bonds and other bond issues, including mandatory-convertible bonds and convertible bonds (convertendi e convertibili); high yield instruments and PIK structures; typical and atypical derivatives; shares of investment funds; participative financial instruments and participative subordinated bonds; Contingent Convertible Equity-Linked Securities (CPECs) and Tier 1 Perpetual Equity-Linked Securities (TPECs).

The Firm has supported some of the most active participants in the Milan and London markets, including funds, institutions and investors. Leveraging its reputation built on successful transactions, it offers support in structured products encompassing the entire range of debt instruments and hybrid issues, for all types of underlying assets.

The Banking and Finance Team consists of eleven members spread across Milan and London, actively engaged in national, international and cross-border markets, on a regular basis.