The multi-disciplinary approach and global reach of Linklaters' Asset Finance practice offer major asset finance industry participants a critical competitive advantage.

Linklaters has a broad banking practice at the top of the market with leading relationships with all major banks and corporates in the syndicated loan market.

Advising global banks and other financial institutions on financial structuring transactions, including providing prudential regulatory expertise.

A market-leading funds finance practice.

Linklater’s high yield group is fully integrated into the firm’s banking and private equity practices and comprises highly regarded lawyers with leading high yield and restructuring expertise.

Linklaters' global real estate finance team combines the experience of the firm's pre-eminent finance, real estate and tax practices.

Linklaters' global restructuring and insolvency lawyers handle the world's most challenging and significant domestic and cross-border assignments.

Trade finance transactions demand a combination of legal expertise and commercial awareness across a wide range of demanding jurisdictions.

We have acted on nearly every high profile European margin loan in the last five years and we are the pre-eminent creditor-facing margin lending team in Europe. Margin loans were traditionally used by institutions to monetise long term holdings in equities. They have now become an essential part of the capital structure for a financial sponsor where they are buying or holding listed shares.

Banking litigation lawyers at Linklaters have advised leading investment banks and other financial institutions on some of largest and most complex recent financial disputes.

• Band 1 for Banking & Finance: Lenders: Big Ticket
  Chambers UK 2022

• Band 1 for Banking & Finance: Borrowers: Big Ticket
  Chambers UK 2022

• Band 1 for Restructuring and Insolvency
  Chambers UK 2022

• Tier 1 for Acquisition Finance
  Legal 500 UK 2022 

• Tier 1 for Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency
  Legal 500 UK 2022

• Band 2 for Banking & Finance: Sponsors
  Chambers UK 2022

• Band 1 for Restructuring & Insolvency
  Chambers Europe 2022
• Band 1 for Banking & Finance
  Chambers Belgium 2022
• Band 1 for Banking & Finance
  Chambers Luxembourg 2022
• Band 1 for Banking & Finance
  Chambers Italy 2022
• Band 1 for Banking & Finance
  

  Chambers Portugal 2022

• Band 1 for Banking & Finance
  

  Chambers Spain 2022

• Band 1 for Banking & Finance
  

  Chambers United Arab Emirates 2022

•  Band 2 for Banking & Finance
   Chambers Germany 2022

• Band 1 Banking & Finance
  Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022
• Band 1 Banking & Finance
  Chambers Singapore 2022
• Band 1 for High Yield
  

  Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022

• Band 1 for Banking & Finance 
  Chambers Global 2022 
• Band 2 for Restructuring/Insolvency
  Chambers Global 2022

• "They are our go-to firm - very responsive, very thoughtful and very practical. They offer great content and sophistication, as well as the ability to push when needed but be practical and get things signed off."
   Chambers UK 2022

• "It's a very high-quality team, with strength in depth; they're top quality."
  Chambers UK 2022 

• "Unprecedented combination of expertise, technical knowledge and commerciality," as well as stressing that the team has "seamless cooperation and coordination with other jurisdictions, having a strong internal and external international network."
  Chambers Global 2022 

• "Linklaters are technically extremely strong, they have a firm grasp of market practices, as well as being very capable explaining the interaction of complex concepts and legal terms. The team have acute commercial awareness and give constructive advice."
  Chambers Asia Pacific 2022 
  

• "The team at Linklaters are very detail-focused but still see the bigger picture and also anticipate a lot, which is due to their experience," further describing the team as "very strategically thinking".
  Chambers Europe-wide 2022

• "They have exceptional knowledge of business and the industry. Their responses are always immediate, they are always available."
  Chambers USA 2022

• "Personable firm, with evident depth of experience in the teams we have dealt with."
  Chambers United Arab Emirates 2022