‘Tom Falkus: Always good-humoured and solution-oriented.’
“Tom is incredibly responsive, pragmatic and a real partner to our business.”
Biography
Tom Falkus is a partner in our Capital Markets group specialising in Structured Credit. Tom acts for funds, investment banks, originators, asset managers, sponsors and investors on a broad range of financial and capital market transactions, including fund finance and back-leverage transactions, performing and non-performing loan portfolio acquisitions and related financings, securitisations, restructurings, warehouse facilities and asset-based lending. Tom has extensive experience across a wide range of asset classes in complex transactions.
Experience
Representative transactions include advising:
Avida Finans AB (Avida) on its first synthetic securitisation transaction in accordance with the EU regulations on simple, transparent and standardised securitisations (STS).
The lenders on the bifurcated stapled financings for Shell's onshore and shallow water assets in Nigeria acquired by Renaissance Africa Energy, a consortium of five Nigerian oil and gas companies.
Blackstone on the leverage facilities for their European direct lending funds.
Oaktree Capital Management on their £1bn UK Mid-Market origination partnership with Lloyds Bank PLC.
Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB) on a securitisation of UK non-performing loan portfolios.
Apollo on various trade receivables financing transactions for portfolio companies, including Tenneco on the establishment of an asset-based credit facility consisting of aggregate commitments totalling approximately US$1.2 billion.
Hertz in connection with the securitisations of their UK rental fleet, Australian rental fleet and the multi-jurisdictional securitisation of their European rental car fleets.
Cabot Financial in connection with their UK Consumer Loan securitisation.
Waterfall Asset Management, LLC on a €500 million asset-backed debt capital financing to car subscription platform FINN, secured against its fleet.
Tier Dott on various financings relating to their e-scooter and e-bike fleet and related receivables and financing aspects of their corporate merger.
The senior lender on a forward flow financing for UK equity release mortgages.
Starwood Capital in relation to various CRE and CMBS financings and refinancings.
Up and Coming - Capital Markets Securitisation
Chambers UK, 2025