Squire Patton Boggs has advised Lloyds on its financing provided to support LDC’s investment in Frankham Group, a leading property and construction consultancy. Frankham’s founder and chairman, Steve Frankham MBE, is retiring after leading the business for 44 years. LDC’s investment will help Frankham accelerate its 2030 growth strategy, targeting further geographic expansion.
The team advising Lloyds was led by Financial Services partner Alison Davidson-Cox, supported by associates Elysia Watts and Jessica Hopkinson.
Alison commented: “It was a pleasure to have supported Lloyds on this transaction and to have worked with Adrian Peckham and his team again. It also marked my first deal completion since I joined SPB in February, and I am very grateful for the excellent support of my new colleagues”.
Headquartered in Sidcup, Kent, and established in 1982 by Steve Frankham MBE as a building surveying practice, Frankham has become one of the UK’s leading multidisciplinary consultancies for the built environment. Today, employing c.250 people, it delivers a broad range of end-to-end services, spanning fire and building compliance, surveying and project management, engineering, and design. It has over 700 private and public sector clients and works on projects across the housing, infrastructure, commercial and other sectors.
Frankham has doubled its turnover over the past five years, underpinned by growing demand for compliance-led services driven by regulatory and legislative change. Historically focused on London and the South East, it has recently expanded to other parts of the country and in April 2025, opened an office in Birmingham – its fifth site, alongside Sidcup, London, Stevenage and Oxford.
