Speciality Finance
Ashurst has a premier banking team offering a sector-focused practice and experience across specialist lending asset classes, including bridging, litigation finance, payment businesses, consumer lending, other real estate backed assets, asset/auto finance and more.
We have a wealth of experience advising corporates, major banks, non-bank financial institutions, mezzanine financiers and alternative lenders, and private equity houses in the speciality finance sector.
We understand that our clients require much more from us than technical excellence. They need us to understand their business and industries to provide them with elegant, relevant advice shaped by market insight. We take time to understand the nuances of our clients’ asset class and strategic ambitions to ensure we provide advice and execution that enhances your market offering and drives your business forward.
Expertise across asset classes
We advise on all asset classes including:
| Bridging Ashurst’s experience and work on innovative funding structures alongside more vanilla products is highly valued by our bridging finance clients |
 | Real Estate Backed Assets Historically making up a significant portion of the specialist lending market. Ashurst has experience in development finance, 1st and 2nd charge businesses as well as buy-to-let. |
 | Unsecured Consumer Lending As regulatory environments become even more challenging, Ashurst is able to field a first-class regulatory team to support financings with significant regulatory interplay. |
 | Asset Finance Combinations of HP and leasing products mean that tax and in particular VAT treatment needs to be identified and addressed early in a transaction. Ashurst’s tax team is very well versed in the appropriate treatment and set up to give immediate support |
 | Payment Businesses Our digital economy team gives our speciality finance team an in-depth understanding of the technical and operational needs of these businesses, educating and guiding the financing solutions |
| Auto Finance Ashurst has deep experience in warehouse structures for auto finance providers, both in the UK and in Europe. |
| Litigation Funding As the litigation funding landscape develops and becomes more sophisticated, we have leveraged our global experience to assist our clients. |
It has been an absolute pleasure working with the Ashurst team on our inaugural forward flow transaction. Their understanding of the Commercial, technical and legal details of the structure has been instrumental in structuring and closing the transaction. I was particularly impressed by their commitment and responsiveness, turnaround times have been outstanding. DIRECTOR AT PROPORTUNITY
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We bring together lawyers of the highest calibre with the technical knowledge, industry experience and regional know-how to provide the incisive advice our clients need.
