Hill Dickinson advises Royal Bank of Scotland on a £50m term loan facility to Magic Homes Group

Our Banking and Finance team recently advised HSBC UK on a £16m funding facility for the MBO of chemical distribution company, Meade-King Robinson.

We're delighted to welcome banking and finance partner Debra Cooper to Hill Dickinson as the latest of more than a dozen senior lateral partners to join our Business Services group in the last 15 mon

In the recent High Court decision of Ahuja Investments Limited -v- Victorygame Limited [2021] EWHC 2382 (Ch) the court considered if a default interest clause was a penalty clause and unenforceable. 

John Quicler, a senior associate within our Banking and Finance Litigation team, sets out the recent changes in relation to the presentation of winding-up petitions following the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Amendment of Schedule 10) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/1029), which came into force on 29 September 2021.

Last year, the UK government committed to the goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. This year, 2020, has opened our eyes as to how quickly the world as we know it can change, in what has been an unprecedented year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has revealed our vulnerabilities, exposing the reality of environmental risks associated with human impact. It has allowed us to observe the real power of the natural world to begin to mend itself during the periods of lockdown that we have experienced.

Hill Dickinson has recently advised award-winning independent financial advisory firm Dow Schofield Watts (DSW) on its strategic investment in a Manchester-based corporate finance boutique, Camlee Group.