Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

The structured finance team at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP is 'great – so helpful and easy to work with'. The London office continues to handle market-leading and innovative transactions, including RMBS, equity release mortgage-backed transactions, asset finance and SME lending deals, and warehousing matters. Michael Poulton is 'brilliant at cutting through complex issues and helping clients get deals over the line'. He recently advised a European bank on owner-occupier mortgage loans secured over property in England and Wales, as well as a billion-pound RMBS deal. Poulton co-leads the practice with Joy Amis, who is a respected adviser on public and private securitisations, portfolio acquisitions and forward flow transactions in the UK, Europe and worldwide, and veteran Jake Jackaman, whose practice includes whole-business securitisations, development loans and other receivables deals. The group also has a strong bench of associates, among them Victoria Salisbury and Charlene Kong.