Victoria Baker
Partner, Head of Finance, EMEA
Victoria specialises in advising issuers, special purpose vehicles, corporate borrowers, banks and other financiers on asset based lending, receivables financing, securitisations, private placements and other forms of debt capital markets transactions.
Victoria's experience
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Advised Whittan Intermediate Limited, a leading storage solutions provider, on its pan-European asset-based lending facilities and subsequent amendments and extensions to the facility.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised on a £40m recourse receivables finance facility with HSBC and Natwest to support working capital funding for multiple entities in the IG Design Group across England and the Netherlands.
- Netherlands and United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised Nucleus Cash Flow Finance, a specialist finance provider, in connection with their forward flow financing of an SME loan portfolio with Castlelake.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised Allica Financial Services Limited, a specialist financial services provider, on a working capital facility to support restructuring of an employee ownership trust with additional investment.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised The Go Ahead Group Limited on their borrowing base funding facility to finance the fleet of buses to be used with certain franchises Go Ahead won for Transport for Greater Manchester's public transport network and with financing the electrification of the fleet over time.
- United Kingdom
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Advised a major financial institution on the refinance of a securitisation of a portfolio of hire purchase receivables originated by Ultimate Asset Finance and the subsequent move to an STS compliant structure.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised Modella Capital, the retail investor, on the special situations financing aspects of its acquisition of the WH Smith high street stores (now trading as TG Jones).
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Acted for Pertemps, a UK and international staffing provider, on the refinance of its £110m receivables financing arrangements with RBS Invoice Finance Limited and Virgin Money. The transaction involved more than 70 obligors granting security and was delivered through a coordinated approach utilising the firm’s advanced delivery team.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Acted for an asset-based lender in connection with a facility comprising a receivables purchase and a plant & machinery borrowing base term loan facility to support their client in acquiring a new business and providing working capital support, highlighting our firm's flexibility to advise across various specialisms within Banking and Finance.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising a leading UK bank on a £45 million back-to-back ABL facility
- £45m
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
Credentials
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2026Thomson Reuters Stand Out Lawyer
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2007Qualified - England & Wales
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2005Legal Practice Course - College of Law, Birmingham
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2004PGDL - College of Law, Birmingham
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2003BA (Honours) Biology - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
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