Grainne is a banking and finance solicitor based in the Belfast office. Grainne acts for borrowers, banks, private equity and financial institutions across a variety of transactions to include debt finance including real estate finance and asset-based lending, acquisition finance and general corporate lending.
Recent transactions include:
- acting for a large UK bank on a real estate acquisition and development facility of over £11,000,000;
- acting for a major motor financing company in relation to various real estate and corporate acquisitions and restructures;
- advising on the finance aspects of a £10,000,000 investment from a private equity investor to leading construction supplies company;
- advising a major UK high street bank on the refinancing of its existing facilities with a number of borrowers; and
- regularly advising major UK and Irish banks on the Northern Irish aspects of English Law or Irish Law governed transactions.
Grainne qualified in 2016 and worked in the banking and finance team of a national firm, before relocating from Manchester to Belfast and joining Shoosmiths in April 2022. She is dual qualified in both England and Northern Ireland and regularly practises in both jurisdictions.