Lee Doyle Email and Phone Number

As a Partner in Ashurst's finance department I specialise in Equity Fund facilities; syndicated corporate debt facilities; corporate restructurings and workouts; and risk management strategies. I have been responsible for a number of high profile clients including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Wells Fargo, Santander and Barclays Bank. I have a strong appreciation of risk management strategies of large organisations and actively advise a number of Banks on their existing processes and policies.Recent deal highlights include-Strategic Transactions• Santander in connection with the creation of a strategic fund to target growth within the SME sector and its partnership with the Regional Growth Fund.• Royal Bank of Scotland and EIB on J.V. to develop a large funding programme to support carbon reduction initiatives across the public sector.• Rothschild Debt Fund Management on the launch of Oberon Credit Investment Fund I• Barclays Bank Plc on the formation of a new German branch of Barclays Corporate, including regulatory advice and creation of new documentation suites.• Advising Alcentra on their €525m Mezzanine Fund IIPortfolio Transactions• Project Acorn – Commerzbank's sale of Hypotheken Bank to Wells Fargo and Lone Star for the total value of £5.5bn.• The seller on a circa £1.2bn portfolio of loans and equity interests.• Deutsche Bank in relation to the proposed acquisition of c.£3bn pan-European assets from IBRC's Project Stone.FIG & Corporate Facilities• RBS and HSBC on facilities to Charles Taylor across 14 jurisdictions.• RBS and Lloyds on a series of facilities to Permira.• State Street on lending to Actera.• Lloyds Banking Group on lending to Vitruvian.

Legal advisor for RBS restructuring teamMajor deals I worked on whilst at the Royal Bank of Scotland include:• The integration of ABN and RBS• Asset Protection Scheme• Project Rainbow- sale of devolved bank

Responsibility for legal across Corporate Bank

Specialising in funds, insurance, leveraged finance and investment grade lending.