Expertise

Beth's practice includes advising issuers (both debut and established), managers/investors and trustees. She is rated "Tier 1" and described as "incredibly knowledgeable and very responsive" by Chambers & Partners and listed as a "Leading Individual" and described as "the best legal mind in the City" by Legal 500. She has specialised in bond issues by housing associations since 2008. Her broader capital markets experience ranges from advising on Government Gilt issues, local authority, university and healthcare financing and issues by corporates (on both secured and unsecured issues, and on structured and plain vanilla debt).

Experience

• Advising the arrangers/bookrunners, bond trustees and security trustees on the issue of over £7bn of public listed bonds by providers of social housing since 2017, including issues by Catalyst Housing, Citizen Housing, Futures Housing Group, Housing 21, Home Group, Karbon Homes, LiveWest, London & Quadrant, Notting Hill Housing, Optivo, Orbit, Peabody, RHP, Sanctuary, Southern Housing Group and Wrekin;
• Advising investors such as ASI, Assura, BaE Systems, Barings, Blackrock, LGIM, M&G, Macquarie, MetLife, Pension Insurance Corporation, Rothesay Life and Sun Life of numerous private placements; and
• Advising capital markets investors in funding local authorities, including the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Redbridge, the London Borough of Brent and Hartlepool Borough Council.