Victoria Thompson assists clients in a wide variety of finance transactions, focusing on asset-based lending, borrowing base financings, refinancings, special situations, and distressed debt funding. Victoria also has experience with general banking and finance transactions across a number of industries and sectors, including retail, manufacturing, aviation and mining. She acts for all classes of investors including banks, nonbank financial institutions, alternative finance providers, hedge funds, asset managers, quasi-private equity funds, and investment companies. Victoria also advises clients on strategic transactions and joint ventures.
Extended Profile
Victoria has worked extensively on cross-border and international financing transactions and frequently works with clients and other lawyers in the United States and throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She is dually qualified to practice in New York and England & Wales. The 2019 edition of The Legal 500 noted Victoria as a Next Generation Partner for Asset Based Lending, commenting that Victoria “demonstrates ‘outstanding commercial and legal insights’ to banks and funds on new money ABL financings and restructurings” and that “The very knowledgeable Victoria Thompson is a strong communicator and has a big future in banking law."
Victoria previously spent 11 months on secondment to a New York–based hedge fund in 2015, where she advised on a range of issues. She also spent five months on secondment in 2016 at Wells Fargo, assisting with their acquisition of GE’s commercial distribution finance business.
Select Matters
Advised market-leading lenders on major asset-based lending transactions
Advised on the reorganization of existing asset-based facilities resulting from group company reorganizations
Advised companies on their financial and operational restructurings
Advised secured and unsecured creditors on legal and strategic options in distressed situations
Education
BPP Law School, London, 2008, LPC
University College London, 2007, LLB
Admissions
England & Wales (Solicitor)
New York
Awards and Affiliations
Recommended, Human Resources: Employment: Employers, The Legal 500 UK (2020)
Recommended, Finance: Asset Based Lending, London, The Legal 500 UK (2019)
Ranked, Rising Star for Banking, Super Lawyers (2014)