Banking & Finance lawyers

Richard Leeming

Partner; acting for lenders on real estate finance transactions and fundings. Clients include DRC, HSBC, ICG, NatWest and Puma. Head of Financial Services Sector Group.

Burges Salmon LLP

Richard Lever

Richard is a partner and heads Lee & Thompson’s Television Group, advising a diverse and extensive television client list which includes most of the UK’s leading television production companies. He advises on all areas of the television industry, including the creation of talent based TV production companies and the setting up and financing of high end television projects. Richard was actively involved with PACT, having served on the PACT Council for a number of years and was extensively involved in policy making affecting producers across the television industry. In particular, Richard advised PACT’s TV policy group on the Terms of Trade for UK broadcasters which has provided significant opportunities for UK ‘indies’.

Lee & Thompson LLP

Richard Lightbourn

Consultant

McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes

Richard Marcinčin

Richard Marcinčin is a senior associate and a member of the Banking & Finance Group in Denton’s Bratislava office. His practice focuses on corporate law and banking and finance. Richard has been involved in numerous financing transactions representing both borrowers and lenders. Richard’s experience also covers legal due diligence procedures, the drafting of various memorandums and legal analysis, advising clients on commercial lease terminations, as well as representing clients before the civil courts.

Dentons

Richard Mosonyi

partner

Gárdos Mosonyi Tomori Law Office

Richard Munden

Richard advises clients on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions with particular expertise in asset and fund finance. He has deep experience of advising on cross-border transactions, debt capital market transactions, domestic infrastructure projects and joint venture and shareholder arrangements. He also works for a broad range of clients in the rapidly growing digital assets, DEFI and blockchain sector, advising on structures for investing in digital assets and on the regulation of digital assets, exchanges, custodians, liquidity providers and coin and token issuances.

Carey Olsen

Richard Omwela

Partner Richard Omwela has been in legal practice for over four decades and in that time he has developed an enviable breadth and depth of experience across all areas of commercial law practice. He consistently applies his expertise to provide his clients across all economic sectors with the highest quality of legal services. His practice also includes advising clients on competition law and regulation including mergers, acquisitions, assets sales, corporate restructuring and general regulatory advice in the financial services sectors.

Dentons Hamilton Harrison & Mathews

Richard Osborn

Excello Law

Richard Roothman

Richard was appointed a director of Werksmans in 2007 and heads the firm’s Banking & Finance practice group.

Werksmans Attorneys

Richard Sandford

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Richard Sjøqvist

Partner

BAHR

Richard Spencer

Partner

Campbells

Richard Spink

Heads the firm’s Corporate and Financial Institutions Department. Has continued to advise on a variety of UK and cross-border deals this year, acting for a range of corporates, institutions and individuals. Richard continues to be a member of the firm's international committee.

Burges Salmon LLP

Richard Stock

Richard Stock is a partner in Mayer Brown's Hong Kong office. He is Head of Finance for Asia and a co-leader of Mayer Brown's Banking & Finance practice. He focuses his practice on the aviation industry, with over thirty years’ experience assisting airlines, lessors and financial institutions to document aircraft and aviation-related transactions. Richard has extensive experience advising on aircraft finance and leasing matters for both commercial and business aircraft, as well as documenting the acquisition and disposal of aircraft. He has negotiated OEM documentation for the purchase of new aircraft with a total value exceeding USD 30 billion. Richard also advises airlines, lessors and investors on the acquisition and disposal of portfolios of used aircraft and aircraft engines. Richard has a particular interest in airline operational matters, having advised airlines on long-term engine maintenance agreements and inventory technical management agreements with scheduled revenues exceeding USD 9 billion. Additionally, investors enlist Richard’s insight on strategically important projects, including the establishment of new airlines, the re-purposing of existing airlines and the establishment of aircraft and/or engine leasing platforms. Chambers Asia Pacific (2025) noted that "Richard's extensive experience in the industry is a real source of comfort in worst-case scenarios. He knows very well when he can rely on his team and when he should step in." Richard is consistently ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and is in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame.

Mayer Brown

Richard Swaine

Richard has a broad range of experience advising both UK and international clients, including both listed and private companies as well as high net-worth individuals, on corporate and commercial issues. He has represented clients on private acquisitions and disposals, business start-ups and joint ventures, management buy-outs, AIM listings, fund raising and financing/refinancing arrangements (both debt and equity). Richard’s clients operate primarily in the technology and life science sectors but his experience includes advising clients who operate in a wide variety of sectors and industries including manufacturing industry, financial services, media, consumer products and leisure industries. Richard also advises on corporate insolvency matters where he has advised the directors of companies in financial distress, creditors and insolvency practitioners. Richard specialises in advising charity and not-for-profit clients, including a number of membership associations, on issues relating to their formation and governance.

Bristows LLP

Richard Sykes

Richard is partner in our corporate practice in the Cayman Islands. Richard advises on Cayman real estate, development and all aspects of local leasing and licensing. Richard's practice focuses on complex real estate transactions and structuring. In addition Richard has significant experience in hospitality and infrastructure. Since arriving in Cayman in 2008, Richard has been involved in almost every major hotel acquisition as well as guiding the development of Camana Bay, Cayman's only mixed use community. Richard has significant experience in public sector projects and is the lead legal advisor in Cayman's first Public Private Partnership established to modernise the Islands' solid waste infrastructure. Richard also has hotel and commercial development experience in a number of other Caribbean jurisdictions. Richard is a CIMA approved director and sits on the executive committees of several strata corporations.

Carey Olsen

Richard Tyler

Richard is a Partner in Mishcon de Reya's Corporate department where he is an expert in corporate finance and M&A. His work covers a wide range of industries including real estate, finance, life science and biotech, fashion and leisure. Clients range from mid-sized PLCs and other corporates to high profile entrepreneurs. In the corporate real estate sector, Richard led the Mishcon de Reya team advising one of Israel's largest real estate investment holding companies, Alony Hetz Properties and Investments, on the acquisition of real estate investment advisers, Brockton Capital LLP and the establishment of a new real estate investment company, Brockton Everlast Inc. with an initial equity investment of £340m from Alony Hetz. Richard also led the Mishcon team acting for longstanding client Helical plc on the disposal of its retirement villages portfolio to Legal & General for £102m. Richard advised Peanut App on its seed 2 funding, with the round being led by Sweet Capital (the founders of King Digital Entertainment), Female Founders Fund, Greycroft Partners and Sound Ventures. He also advised on a series of transactions for long-standing bioscience client, Quotient Bioresearch Group Limited, including the disposal of Quotient Bioscience Group Limited to Pharmaron Beijing Co Ltd.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Richard Williams

Richard advises both lenders and borrowers on all aspects of real estate investment and development debt finance across all asset classes, including residential, commercial, retail, light industrial, student accommodation, hotels and care homes. He also acts for clients in relation to real estate debt acquisitions and disposals and in connection with CMBS and debt servicing matters. Richard has a strong reputation amongst his clients for providing pragmatic and commercial advice to enable them to achieve the most appropriate outcomes for their business. He has particular expertise in development finance and financings involving mezzanine debt and intercreditor relationships. He acts for a number of debt funds, property investors and large private equity clients.

Freeths LLP

Richard Wolf

Partner; specialised in Equity Capital Markets, Financial Regulatory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance.

Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG

Ricky Brenner

Partner, Capital Markets, Corporate Law and Banking

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy

Rido Pangaribuan

Partner, Altruist Lawyers

Altruist Lawyers

Rifat Rahman

Senior Associate, Lead of Cross Border Disputes Department, Mahbub & Company

Mahbub & Company

Riikka Eronen

Partner Riikka Eronen advises our clients on banking and finance transactions and debt restructuring. She has extensive experience in finance transactions, including corporate lending and real estate finance as well as acquisition financing and other event-driven financing. Prior to joining Borenius, Riikka has worked as an associate at another law firm and as legal counsel at Aareal Bank AG. Riikka joined us from Danske Bank whose corporate loans franchise she most recently worked at as a loan originator. Riikka co-heads the firm’s Banking & Finance team.

Borenius

Riina Toivonen-Vuong

Senior Associate

Krogerus