Tom Falkus
Biography
“Tom is incredibly responsive, pragmatic and a real partner to our business.”
Overview
Tom Falkus is a partner in our Capital Markets group specialising in structured finance. Tom acts for arrangers, originators, asset managers, sponsors and investors on a wide range of finance matters including performing and non-performing loan portfolio acquisitions and financings, securitisations, restructurings, refinancings, warehouse facilities, asset-based lending and secured loan transactions.
Experience
Recent transactions include advising:
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.
Hertz UK in connection with the securitisation of their UK rental fleet.
Hertz Europe in connection with a €1.3bn 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 Mobility on various financings relating to their e-scooter and e-bike fleet and related receivables and financing aspects of their corporate merger with emTransit (Dott).
The senior lender on a forward flow financing for UK equity release mortgages
Amigo Holdings PLC on the establishment of their GBP 200 million guarantor loan securitisation programme.
Starwood Capital in relation to various CRE and CMBS financings and refinancings.
Up and Coming - Capital Markets Securitisation
Chambers UK, 2025