Lerika Le Grange

London UK

Featured award

The Lawyer Awards 2024

Our commitment to excellence was recognised as we achieved the highly commended status within the 'Finance team of the year' category.

Lerika is a finance partner with a multi-specialist practice who brings a breadth of experience to finance transactions.

She advises financial institutions, corporates, and sponsors on a wide variety of banking and financing work, including general corporate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, derivatives, trade and receivables finance, asset-based lending, venture debt, litigation funding, and debt capital markets. Lerika's experience also covers distressed debt and restructuring.

She regularly acts on cross-border deals and has an international client base, with matters ranging from UK & European matters to Africa matters (she heads up the Africa Group at Taylor Wessing); she also has a strong focus on the U.S. market.

Lerika is the Co-Head of Litigation Funding at Taylor Wessing and has in-depth experience in various transactional matters relating to litigation funding, including advising litigation funders on their funding arrangements (the funding of the litigation funder) and drafting tailored litigation funding agreements.

As a multi-specialist, she finds solutions to complicated structuring issues utilising her vast knowledge gained from advising clients on a wide range of financing products.

Expertise

Rechtsgebiete und Gruppen

Bank- & Finanzrecht

Investmentfonds

Akquistionsfinanzierung

Branchen

Bank- & Finanzwesen

CV

Since 2018 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2013 - 2018 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2007 - 2013 Associate, Slaughter and May

Karriere

Since 2018 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2013 - 2018 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2007 - 2013 Associate, Slaughter and May

Ausbildung

2009 Admitted to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales

2007 Admitted as an attorney, Gauteng Provincial Division, South Africa (currently on the non-practicing roll)

Awards

The Lawyer Awards 2024

Featured

Legal 500 UK 2025

Legal 500 UK 2023

Mehr

Experience

The African Stove Company (TASC)

We successfully managed the receivables-based refinancing of South Africa's largest carbon credit project for The African Stove Company, demonstrating our proficiency in sustainable finance and project development.

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Lerika Le Grange

Financial restructuring for UK renewables company

Advised a client on the bespoke debt restructuring of its multi-jurisdictional group including traditional secured and unsecured loans, notes issuances, convertible loan notes and receivables financings owed to 15 lender entities.

Katie Horbury

Amy Edwards-Knight

Lerika Le Grange

Rockpool Investments

Advising Rockpool Investments on investment in MomentumABM, an account-based marketing consultancy provider.

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James Goold

Lerika Le Grange

Liz Wilson

Kate Bowden

British Steel

White Oak - Advising the senior secured creditor on all aspects of the British Steel insolvency and restructuring and on the complex GBP130m FILO (first -in-last-out) asset based finance structure; we were awarded Finance Team of the Year at the Lawyer awards 2020 for this work.

Lerika Le Grange

Nick Moser

Luke Viner

Katie Horbury

Helaba on the new 5 year GBP292.5m loan facility to fund the expansion of MediaCityUK

Helaba, an internationally active German commercial bank, acting as coordinator and agent, alongside other co-lenders on the new 5 year GBP292.5m loan facility to Peel Media in relation to the refinance and expansion of MediaCityUK over the next decade. MediaCityUK is an international destination for technology and innovation, and is home to the likes of the BBC, ITV, dock10 and Ericcson.

Gareth Lawson

Gareth McCarter

Anna Dugoni

Lerika Le Grange

Katie Horbury

Mark Bennett

Daniel O'Brien

Matthew Jones

Stephanie O'Hare