Lerika is a finance partner with a multi-specialist practice who brings a breadth of experience to finance transactions.
She advises financial institutions, corporates, and sponsors on a wide variety of banking and financing work, including general corporate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, derivatives, trade and receivables finance, asset-based lending, venture debt, litigation funding, and debt capital markets. Lerika's experience also covers distressed debt and restructuring.
She regularly acts on cross-border deals and has an international client base, with matters ranging from UK & European matters to Africa matters (she heads up the Africa Group at Taylor Wessing); she also has a strong focus on the U.S. market.
Lerika is the Co-Head of Litigation Funding at Taylor Wessing and has in-depth experience in various transactional matters relating to litigation funding, including advising litigation funders on their funding arrangements (the funding of the litigation funder) and drafting tailored litigation funding agreements.
As a multi-specialist, she finds solutions to complicated structuring issues utilising her vast knowledge gained from advising clients on a wide range of financing products.
