Fiona Coady

Fiona is a partner in the Banking & Finance group and has extensive experience advising both lenders and borrowers in a range of transactions including leveraged and acquisition finance, receivables and asset based lending, private placements, equity margin loans, venture debt, project and infrastructure finance, and structured finance. Fiona principally acts on cross-border transactions and has extensive restructuring experience.
Most recently Fiona has also been particularly active advising on issues concerning the cessation of LIBOR.

CV

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2019 - 2021 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2016 - 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2019 - 2021 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2016 - 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2007 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales

2004 LPC, BPP, Holborn

2003 BA in Jurisprudence, University of Oxford

Experience

Market-leading work in the life sciences sector

We have won Life Sciences Team of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023 for advising on three simultaneous transformational transactions for AIM-listed Shield Therapeutics plc.

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Shane Gleghorn

Andrew Edge

Adrian Toutoungi

Fiona Coady

Advising a global asset manager on its $20 million equity margin facility

Advised a leading global asset manager as borrower on its entry into a $20 million equity margin facility.

Amy Edwards-Knight

Fiona Coady

Kate Bowden

Advising Digital 9 Infrastructure plc on its £300 million revolving credit facility

Advised Digital 9 as borrower on entry into a debt facility with a syndicate of four international banks including RBS, DNB, Royal Bank of Canada and Banco Santander.

Amy Edwards-Knight

Fiona Coady

Kate Bowden

SpectraLegal on its complex GBP100m loan facility agreement

SpectraLegal, the Canadian-backed, UK litigation funder, on a complex and bespoke GBP100m loan facility agreement (with an additional £100m accordion facility) secured predominantly against Spectra's receivables. We also acted on the transfer of loan portfolios within the group and the cancellation and redemption of its two existing senior facilities with a UK bank and U.S. fund respectively.

Lerika Le Grange

Fiona Coady

Kate Bowden

Phoenix UK on the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt and an equity investment

Acting for Phoenix UK Fund Limited in relation to the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt (originally provided to the Stanley Gibbons Group by a UK bank) and its associated equity investment into Stanley Gibbons plc, the specialist retailer of collectable postage stamps and similar products, and on the purchase of certain assets out of administration.

Lerika Le Grange

Fiona Coady

Louis Dewfall

Katie Horbury

A joint venture between two large German real estate companies on a EUR83m facility agreement

A joint venture between two large German real estate companies on a EUR83m facility agreement to refinance a portfolio of offices located across the Netherlands.

Jonathan Marks

Fiona Coady

Louis Dewfall

Andrei Babiy