Banking & Financial Services

Our Banking & Financial Services team delivers innovative and pragmatic solutions for clients, advising on a wide range of financial transactions, regulatory and business matters in this dynamic sector.

Expertise

Our Banking & Financial Services team advises clients across the sector – from domestic and international banks and financial institutions to direct lenders, corporates, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the fintech industry and private individuals. We offer deep expertise in an extensive range of corporate and commercial banking transactions.

We act on lender side for the main pillar banks in Ireland along with a wide range of other funding providers. We act on borrower side for corporate borrowers dealing with the pillar banks and other funding providers, high net worth individuals and property developer/investor borrowers and others.

The team also works closely with the Hayes corporate, commercial, construction and property teams to provide a seamless service where transactions require financing input alongside other specialist advice on a combined and consolidated basis.

As part of a multi-diciplinary team including Hayes commercial and data protection specialists the team supports both established fintech providers and companies setting up new operations in Ireland including:

  • Cyber security
  • Data privacy
  • E-commerce
  • GDPR
  • Intellectual property
  • Payments
  • Procurement

Services

  • Acquisition / leveraged finance
  • Asset-based finance, invoice discounting, leasing and hire purchase
  • Commercial real estate investment and development finance
  • Debt sale and acquisition
  • Financial services regulation and compliance
  • Global corporate restructuring/refinancing
  • Receivables-based financing
  • Refinancings
  • Transaction restructuring
  • Security due diligence and reviews
‘The firm is strong on responsiveness, proactive, competent and efficient. The firm stands out through driving transactions to a close. ’
Legal 500 2025
‘Partner Tim Waghorn is very engaging, is easy to get in touch with and addresses queries in a swift manner. He and his team delivered on what we appointed them to do. ’
Legal 500 2025
‘Tim Waghorn is a standout for us. Exceptionally available and responsive. Always gives a well considered response and a full response - anticipating issues and being proactive.’
Legal 500 2025
‘Tim Waghorn and James Griffin stood out as being responsive, proactive and competent.’
Legal 500 2025
‘I have worked with Tim Waghorn on a number of projects. He is not only excellent at drafting easy to understand documentation, which in my opinion is not easy or common when dealing with complex subjects, but his advice is clear and concise and his communication of the same is exceptional. He is extremely knowledgeable, diligent, hard working and a pleasure to deal with.’
Legal 500 EMEA 2024
‘Tim Waghorn is an exceptionally organised and communicative partner. He goes over and above for clients whilst maintaining a commercial approach.’
Legal 500 EMEA 2024
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