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Anthony Macpherson
Anthony advises clients on financing and corporate matters. He has a broad experience in banking and finance matters including general corporate and individual lending, property finance, asset finance and acquisition finance.
He advises on a whole range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, and private equity transactions.
He also has experience on providing corporate finance advice to companies listing on the junior markets such as the Aquis Exchange, the standard segment of the Official List and AIM.
Anthony’s clients include a variety of banks, real estate developers and financiers, investment funds, HNWIs and private family offices.
On finance transactions, he is predominantly borrower-mandated and advises on all aspects of investment and development facilities; tax driven schemes and structures including limited partnerships and offshore SPVs; work-outs and restructurings; and refinances.
He advises founders, investors and entrepreneurs and the businesses they manage on corporate matters.
Anthony is listed by The Legal 500 a key lawyer in the team for Property Finance. He is ranked Top 'Recommended' in Spears best corporate lawyers for 2024 and was also recognised in the Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers list as a “Rising Star” in 2014 and 2015.
Recent work
- Acting for the Founders on the sale of a foreign exchange brokerage to a private equity fund.
- Advising on the group restructuring of an aviation company including the intra-group transfer of aircraft by way of dividend in specie and subsequent financing of the aircraft.
- Advising on the sale of the London Heliport.
- Advising a Jersey-registered fund on the financing and acquisition of a PRS portfolio containing over 300 let properties in South-east England.
- Acting for a borrower on the restructuring of its £150m debt including dealing with the intercreditor issues between the senior, mezzanine and unsecured lenders.
- Advising a Bermudan borrower on the financing of an Airbus A320 aircraft.
- Acting for a private bank on the acquisition financing of a former power station.
- Advising an offshore group structure controlled by a Private Family Office on the re-financing of £70m of property in London.
- Acting for a member of a Middle-eastern Royal Family on the re-financing of commercial property in London.
- Acting for a HNWI on the re-financing of his property in the South of France.
Professional Societies and Memberships
- Loan Market Association
