Ed Bellamy

Partner, Fox Williams LLP

Ed is a partner in the Fox Williams financial services team. Drawing on many years of experience both in private practice and in-house at a major buy-side financial institution, he advises originators, financial institutions, private credit funds, investors, servicers and other market participants with respect to public and private securitisations. He also has experience with warehouse financings, forward flow transactions, portfolio sales, restructurings and related derivative/regulatory capital transactions. He covers a wide variety of asset classes including residential and commercial mortgage loans, speciality finance, consumer loans, auto loans, NPLs, trade receivables and corporate loans.

Ed has significant experience representing credit funds, banks and borrowers in commercial real estate financing transactions across a range of financing structures, including loan-on-loan, mezzanine and development facilities. Further Ed has a broad range of debt capital markets experience.

Ed joined Fox Williams in October 2024 from Dentons with prior experience at Paul Hastings, Skadden, Cadwalader and as Senior Legal Counsel at Insight Investment.

Ed regularly has articles published in leading banking and finance and other industry magazines and is an active participant in a number of structured finance/securitisation industry groups.

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Bills of exchange—structure and parties

Practice Notes

This Practice Notes explains the key features of a bill of exchange. It covers the parties to a bill of exchange, the types of bills of exchange used in trade finance, the stages of a transaction involving a bill of exchange, lost bills of exchange and transferring bills of exchange.

Banking & Finance

Enforcing guarantees—key issues

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the key issues in relation to the enforcement of guarantees in the context of a commercial financing transaction. It covers the nature of the lender’s claim against the guarantor, how a lender enforces a guarantee, the key issues with multi-guarantor guarantees, syndicated transactions and specific issues that arise when dealing with guarantees from individuals.

Banking & Finance

Form of bills of exchange and promissory notes

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the form that bills of exchange and promissory notes are required to take under the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 and otherwise.

Banking & Finance

Promissory notes—structure and parties

Practice Notes

This Practice Note explains the key features of promissory notes. It covers the parties to a promissory note, the usual stages of a transaction involving a promissory note, limitation periods for promissory note transactions and how promissory notes are transferred.

Banking & Finance