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William Heywood

Partner | London

About William

Having trained and worked at Magic Circle, Silver Circle and US firms, Will has a wide range of banking and finance law expertise. 

His background is corporate and leveraged acquisition finance and has worked on several high-profile acquisitions and syndicated multi-stream corporate financings. More recently, he has worked on asset financings in the developing markets natural resources space and several multi-jurisdictional general corporate and invoice discounting lines across Europe.

He specialises, however, in senior and mezzanine lender-side Real Estate acquisition, development and bridge finance including background funding lines, A-note lines and loan-on-loan structures. 

He also acts for corporate lenders, challenger banks, MTN arrangers and family offices.

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