Clarke Willmott LLP

Providing ‘solutions-focused advice’ to an ever-expanding roster of Wales-based housing associations, the ’very knowledgeable and helpful’ team at Clarke Willmott LLP is appreciated in particular for its finance expertise in the space. With deep practical fee-earning experience and membership of the Property Finance Working Group, the ’outstanding’ Vicky Kells is ‘extremely knowledgeable of lender requirements’, ensuring that bank and bond financings proceed very smoothly. The ’cool, calm and collected’ Fraser MacRae has excellent insight as a result of his balanced lender/borrower offering and is a key contact across a range of secured funding transactions, from bilateral/syndicated loans through to private placements involving institutional investors. Outside the firm's finance work, Clare Gregory provides ‘responsive and solutions-oriented’ advice to RSLs on acquisitions, disposals and developments.