The Banking and Financial Services Practice at CHP advises lenders, borrowers and sponsors on the financing arrangements that underpin acquisitions, developments and ongoing operations across the region. Our approach proceeds from a straightforward proposition: documentation settled under commercial pressure must remain sound long after completion, through drawdown, amendments and, where circumstances require, enforcement.
The practice spans bilateral and syndicated facilities, acquisition and asset-backed lending, real estate and hospitality finance, and the restructuring of credits that have come under strain. We prepare and negotiate APLMA and LMA-standard facility agreements, Singapore law security instruments, and intercreditor and subordination arrangements. We also advise on the judgement that sits behind the drafting: which positions merit negotiation and which do not, and where imprecision in a definition may give rise to dispute in the years that follow.
In line with CHP’s modern and dynamic brand, the practice has also paved the way for new credit products in the market such as IP-backed financing, where we collaborate closely with the lenders, borrowers (IP-rich companies), valuation agencies and IP advisers to orchestrate a commercially viable and risk-protected deal for the lenders, while unlocking a new avenue of capital for the modern company whose most valuable asset is innovation.
Financing transactions proceed to timetables set by others. We are accustomed to working within them, and to doing so without any compromise in the quality of the documentation we produce.
