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Kieran Barnes

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Areas of Focus

Overview

Kieran Barnes is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s London office and a member of the Financial Services Group. Kieran’s experience focuses on domestic and cross-border asset-based lending, private credit, and specialty finance. He acts for banks, alternative lenders, and corporate borrowers across diverse industries, delivering practical and strategic advice across complex transactions.

Career & Education

    • AmLaw 100 Firm, September 2020–September 2025
    • AmLaw 100 Firm,  April 2019–August 2020
    • AmLaw 100 Firm, September 2020–September 2025
    • AmLaw 100 Firm,  April 2019–August 2020

    • BPP University Law School, LPC, Legal Practice
    • University of Southampton, LLB, Law
    • University of Hong Kong, International Legal Studies
    • BPP University Law School, LPC, Legal Practice
    • University of Southampton, LLB, Law
    • University of Hong Kong, International Legal Studies

    • England and Wales
    • England and Wales

Kieran's Insights

Publication | 10.12.26

The Liquidity Imperative: Opportunity and Risk in Next-Generation Collateral Enhancement

In today's mid-market, collateral is a dynamic, actively managed asset that can generate liquidity, reduce funding costs, unlock liability management options, and — in the wrong hands — erode a creditor's recovery without a single covenant being breached. Collateral enhancement has become a strategic imperative for borrowers, lenders, and specialty finance providers alike. It has also become a restructuring tool of the first order — one that skilled debt advisers and lawyers are increasingly deploying to shape outcomes that would previously have required formal insolvency proceedings. ...

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Representative Matters

  • Represented Breal Zeta Commercial Finance in connection with the cross-border £85 million facilities agreement for Watermill-CT Holdings Group.
  • Acted for New Look in connection with the £100 million facility agreement provided by Blazehill Capital and Wells Fargo.
  • Acted for Essar Oil (UK) Limited in connection with several receivable finance deals, including:
      • a $150 million receivables purchase agreement with ABN Amro;
      • a $150 million receivables purchase agreement with Soundpoint Capital.
      • a $75 million receivables purchase agreement with Callodine Commercial.
      • a $120 million receivables purchase agreement with Mizrahi Tefahot Bank and Hamburg Commercial Bank.
  • Acted for HSBC Bank in connection with:
      • a £75 million asset-based lending facilities agreement with Air Charter Group.
      • the £93 million re-financing of Anglia Maltings Group.
  • Acted for a European credit fund on several asset based lending transactions, including the debt restructuring of the a UK retailer.
  • Acted for a European logistics company in connection with a £25 million term loan facility agreement provided by HSBC Bank. 
  • Acted as English special counsel alongside NautaDutilh in connection with a cross-border EUR 300 million senior facilities agreement and EUR 75 million borrowing base facility agreement.
  • Acted for Roundhill Capital in connection with a £150 million facilities agreement with Carlyle Group Inc for the refinancing and development of the property known as the Fairfax in Manchester.
  • Acted for Advinia Health Care Limited in connection with the £55 million facilities agreement with Barclays Bank Plc and National Westminster Bank PLC for the purposes of refinancing several care homes.
  • Acted for London and Cambridge Properties (part of M Core) in connection with, amongst other things:
      • the corporate acquisition of the Northampton Shopping Centre.
      • a £30 million term loan facility agreement with National Westminster Bank.
      • a £25 million term loan facility agreement with HSBC UK Bank Plc for the purposes of acquiring certain properties.
  • Acted for Shawbrook Bank in connection with the corporate acquisition by Euston Capital of Pimseal Limited.
  • Acted for Inspirit Capital in connection with the simultaneous corporate acquisition and financing of Alpha 3 Manufacturing.

Kieran's Insights

Publication | 10.12.26

The Liquidity Imperative: Opportunity and Risk in Next-Generation Collateral Enhancement

In today's mid-market, collateral is a dynamic, actively managed asset that can generate liquidity, reduce funding costs, unlock liability management options, and — in the wrong hands — erode a creditor's recovery without a single covenant being breached. Collateral enhancement has become a strategic imperative for borrowers, lenders, and specialty finance providers alike. It has also become a restructuring tool of the first order — one that skilled debt advisers and lawyers are increasingly deploying to shape outcomes that would previously have required formal insolvency proceedings. ...

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Practices

Kieran's Insights

Publication | 10.12.26

The Liquidity Imperative: Opportunity and Risk in Next-Generation Collateral Enhancement

In today's mid-market, collateral is a dynamic, actively managed asset that can generate liquidity, reduce funding costs, unlock liability management options, and — in the wrong hands — erode a creditor's recovery without a single covenant being breached. Collateral enhancement has become a strategic imperative for borrowers, lenders, and specialty finance providers alike. It has also become a restructuring tool of the first order — one that skilled debt advisers and lawyers are increasingly deploying to shape outcomes that would previously have required formal insolvency proceedings. ...

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