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Areas of Expertise

Hilary specialises in asset and acquisition finance. She has acted for financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a wide range of syndicated and bilateral financings often involving cross border elements. The primary focus of her practice since joining Wedlake Bell has been on property financing (for both investment and development purposes, increasingly in the rapidly expanding healthcare sector) and acquisition financing. She also has considerable experience of borrowing base facilities, having acted for an oil and gas exploration company on numerous financings.

Summary of Experience

Hilary qualified at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 1992 and joined Wedlake Bell in 1997, becoming a partner in 2000. As part of her post qualification experience at Freshfields she spent over two years in their Paris office gaining experience of aircraft finance work and is fluent in French.