Many trading businesses are finding that with the decline in the availability of bank overdraft facilities, they are having to use other forms of finance to ‘oil the wheels’ of transactions where the ‘terms of trade’ make cashflow a challenge. A priority client for ‘Cornmill Associates’ found this was the case when they secured a Read more about Trade Finance – how it unlocked a deal for a great client[…]
In 2011 I put out a blog (and subsequently a podcast-see link below) about Mortgage Debentures. Remarkably, ten years later, It remains one of the top items in a Google search on the subject, not because it is so good but because there is a dearth of information covering this. And yet companies Read more about Do Company Directors sign Mortgage Debentures too readily?[…]
I’m supporting a client whose bank has just presented them with a major challenge, with some negotiation needed to tight timescales. The client had taken out a significant 20-year commercial mortgage in 2016 to buy some land to add to his existing property estate. What he’d forgotten, was that although it was repayable over 20 Read more about Did you take out a Commercial Term Loan in 2016?[…]
When Banks, and other specialised commercial property lenders, are looking to lend to commercial property investors, they always have an interest in the ‘Break Clauses’ in the lease granted to tenants. However, with a long-standing tenant of good covenant, in ‘normal times’ the question of the break option being ‘triggered’ is often more of a Read more about Break Options are probably never going to be of so much interest to Property Lenders[…]