Laura Lumley

Laura Lumley

Senior Associate

Email

laura.lumley@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 2529

Offices

London

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Laura advises corporate trustee and agent clients on the on the full spectrum of debt capital markets and loan transactions across product, sector and geography.

Laura advises throughout the lifecycle of deals, from initial funding to refinancings, liability management exercises, domestic and cross-border defaults, restructurings and insolvencies and litigation matters involving trustees. Her product product experience includes project and infrastructure finance, structured finance and securitisations (including MBS, CBS, ABS and whole business), leveraged and acquisition finance and other asset finance, repacks, real estate finance, and international bond issues (including corporate debt and convertibles), fund financings and bespoke custody and escrow arrangements.

Laura also advises clients on large scale projects related to regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions in the sector and other market events (such as LIBOR discontinuation) as well as complex exercises of discretion.

Experience

Representative matters

  • Advice to trustees on a number of securitisations in the hospitality sector in relation to COVID-19 pandemic and associated noteholder consent processes or exercises of discretion regarding waivers of defaults.
  • Advising a syndicate of five prominent clients on a set of standardised documentation for repack programmes including annual updates and associated trades thereunder once established.
  • Advice to a major U.S. bank client on their LIBOR transition project including supervising the due diligence of their global (ex-US) book of business, strategy and approach to certain types of transaction and working with Counsel to appropriately manage and mitigate litigation risk factors.
  • Advising trustees and agents on a number of large-scale project financings (involving both bond and bank debt) related to Italian toll roads and associated on-going security trustee and project agent advice in relation to amendments and discretions.
  • Structuring and implementing a large U.S. bank’s reorganisation of its Account Bank and Custody services including wholesale transfers of these business lines from one subsidiary to another.
  • Corporate trustee advice on the proposed acquisition of the CT business of a leading client including cross border analysis and co-ordination of corporate and other teams.

Pro bono

  • Mentoring women in the firm through the Stepping Forward programme. 
  • Member of the Exchange Committee. 
  • Committee Member of the ICM Women’s Network.

Qualifications

Admissions

Solicitor, England and Wales, 2014

Academic

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), The College of Law, 2010-2012

BA, English Literature, Exeter University, 2010

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.