Laura Collins

Solicitor, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP

Laura is an Associate in the Finance Team and part of the specialist Embedded Finance Team at CMS.

Laura acts for a range of clients including corporates, banks, funds and private equity sponsors in relation to cross border and domestic syndicated and bilateral funding transactions. She advises on a range of financing transactions such as acquisition lending, corporate lending, leverage finance and real estate finance.

Laura specialises in tech financing transactions, with a particular focus on fintech, embedded finance and platform lending. She has worked on transactions with the Embedded Finance Team at CMS, including advising on debt-raises and the establishment of embedded finance products (including B2B BNPL, B2C BNPL, lending and payments, revenue-based financing, income share arrangements and embedded insurance). Laura is also a member of the firm’s equIP programme and Fintech Associates group.

Prior to working at CMS Laura trained and worked within the Banking and Finance Team at another large international law firm. She undertook two secondments at financial institutions, one involving co-ordinating and leading the LIBOR reform project for the UK Legal teams, including feeding into the LMA and Bank of England’s RFR working groups.

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Taking security over intellectual property—practical points

Practice notes

This Practice Note deals with the interrelationship between the law relating to security and the law relating to IP. It is increasingly recognised that all businesses own and use IP of some kind. Lenders in sectors which include IP-rich businesses are focusing increasingly on ensuring that their security captures the value of this IP. The law relating to security over IP is uncertain, and lenders must manage their way through the uncertainty. In addition, security over IP rights may be costly to put in place and difficult to enforce.