"Tom is like a part of the team; he knows the company inside and out and is always on top of providing the best advice."
"He ensures a constructive process where he is cognisant of the client position, and it is always helpful to discuss the issues with him."
Chambers UK, 2027
"Tom Falkus: Always good-humoured and solution-oriented."
"Tom is incredibly responsive, pragmatic and a real partner to our business."
Legal 500 UK, 2025 / Chambers UK, 2025
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:
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.
Various investment banks (including Citi, Macquarie, Santander and Goldman Sachs) on back-leverage finance transactions.
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.
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.
Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB) on a securitisation financing of UK non-performing loan portfolios.
The senior lender on a forward flow financing for UK equity release mortgages.
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.
Starwood Capital in relation to various CRE and CMBS financings and refinancings.
Professional Highlights
Up and Coming - Capital Markets Securitisation
Chambers UK, 2026
