Bev Wood
PartnerBev is a partner in the Banking and Finance team.
With 20 years' experience in the asset finance sector, Bev advises clients on a wide range of asset and invoice finance arrangements including equipment leasing, receivables finance, asset based lending, stock finance and vendor finance. Bev and her team provide legal advice to clients funding a variety of assets from plant and machinery, vehicles, HGVs, ships and aircraft to invoices and receivables.
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FCA Motor Finance Redress Scheme: Implications, risks and likely industry response
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out the detail of the long-awaited, industry-wide redress scheme for historic motor finance mis-selling). It is one of the most significant consumer remediation exercises in UK financial services, with profound operational, financial, and legal implications for lenders, investors and consumers.
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Hopcraft Judgment on Commission Disclosure has potential reach beyond Motor Finance
The keenly awaited judgment of the Court of Appeal (Johnson v Firstrand Bank Ltd, Wrench v Firstrand Bank Ltd, and Hopcraft v Close Brothers Ltd) issued on 25 October 2024 has caused not only significant disruption in the motor finance market over the past week but has also rippled into other regulated products, creating uncertainty in business-to-business arrangements where a broker is used to facilitate funding and introduce a lender to provide finance.
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Trainee to Partner, Beverley Wood
Beverley Wood is a partner in the banking and finance team who began her legal career as a trainee at Morton Fraser, now Morton Fraser MacRoberts. In this interview she reflects on her journey from trainee to partner, and on her time at the firm so far.