Clifford Chance
Charles Hambling is an Associate whose practice focuses on fund finance. Charles has experience acting sponsor and lender-side on complex, innovative, and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, including subscription line, NAV (involving turnover, ECL, and pref arrangements), GP/Manager support, TopCo, hybrid, and co-investment facilities spanning all asset classes, to both closed and open-end fund vehicles. Charles also has experience assisting with implementing more bespoke fund liquidity solutions, including TopCo private placements of notes, preferred equity/NAV hybrids, hybrid funding to continuation funds, umbrella facilities, more concentrated back-levered NAVs, and complex subscription line structures (involving rated note feeders and QB mechanics).
Charles is interested in all developing areas of fund finance practice, particularly CFOs, securitisation of subscription lines, GP-led secondaries financings, and ESG.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Charles has worked on significant and diverse fund finance transactions, including:
- assisting a northern European private equity sponsor in connection with a committed EUR 150,000,000 TopCo/GP commitment facility collateralised across varying fund entities;
- assisting a software, technology, and services-focussed European private equity sponsor in connection with a highly bespoke USD 400,000,000 NAV facility (including turnover and ECL arrangements);
- advising a European private equity sponsor in connection with existing NAV facility upsizes, amendments, restatements, and renewals (including aggregator, nominee, and pref features); and
- assisting a leading UK-based, mid-market private equity sponsor on a complex joint GP private placement and TopCo/GP commitment line.
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
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- Practice area Global Financial Markets
Career and qualifications
- Trinity College, University of Cambridge (Classics and History), 2016.
- Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales, March 2022.
- Joined Clifford Chance January 2025.
- BPP University (GDL), 2018
- BPP University (LPC), 2019