Sandra Forbes  Partner Acquisition Finance, Asset Finance, Banking & Finance, Corporate Banking, PFI and Projects, Rail, Transport Qualifications: LLB (First Class Honours Law Society Finals) Admitted a solicitor 1989 Partner from 1996 Contact:  +44 (0) 117 902 2707 sandra.forbes@burges-salmon.com Sandra Forbes joined Burges Salmon in 1991 having trained in London and worked with a City of London firm. She is Head of the Corporate and Financial Institutions Department which the Banking Group belongs to and she has substantial experience of advising financial institutions and borrowers in relation to corporate lending transactions generally both on a syndicated and bilateral basis. In particular, Sandra specialises in corporate banking, structured finance, project finance, acquisition finance and asset finance (particularly in the transport sector). "This first-class team has so impressed clients that " we cannot sing their praises highly enough!"" ~ Chambers & Partners 2007 Recent work includes: advising Wolseley on €2.8 billion syndicated revolving credit loan facilities advising Mizuho International plc on the development of a new loan product in the agricultural sector, lending on the security of Single Farm Payments from the Rural Payments Agency and National Assembly for Wales, including the production of standard loan and security documentation acting for Wolseley in relation to its financing of the acquisition of the DT Group, including the drafting and negotiation of €1.5 billion syndicated facilities advising First Great Western on rolling stock leasing for its successful tender for the Greater Western and Thameslink/Great Northern franchises advising Coca-Cola HBC on the UK listing of a €2 billion Medium Term Note programme acting for Nationwide in the provision of £102.22 million syndicated property investment facilities to the Business Environment Group advising HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland on a number of acquisition finance transactions