Loan Agreement: secured

A secured loan agreement template for a fixed-amount loan to a corporate borrower incorporated in England and Wales. The loan is drawn in a single advance and repaid either in full on a set date or through installments.

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When do I use this document?

  • secured loan agreement for a secured loan of a fixed amount to be drawn in a single advance
  • for a borrower which is a company incorporated in England and Wales
  • for a loan repayable on a single repayment date or in instalments

What are the key features?

  • easy to edit, with 21 clauses over 13 pages
  • single advance of specified loan amount
  • regular interest payments at either fixed or floating interest rate by reference to specified bank’s base rate of interest
  • repayment either on a single repayment date or in instalments
  • undertakings from the borrower, including to provide information to the lender and prohibition on granting security and additional borrowings
  • events of default, including a failure by the borrower to repay the loan or interest, leading to the lender having the right to demand immediate repayment

What else do I need to know?

The security would need to be created and governed by a separate security document between the borrower and the lender, depending on the nature of the secured property or assets.  Examples of security documents include:

  • a charge over property
  • a charge over shares
  • a debenture, containing fixed and floating charges over all of the borrower’s assets and undertaking

What other documents are available?

For a form of unsecured loan document, see

For forms of unsecured and secured facility agreements, for advances of loans in several lump sums, see

When do I use this document?

  • for a company which is controlled by a majority shareholder and with minority shareholders
  • in conjunction with their Shareholders Agreement – for Paper Rock’s template majority/minority Shareholders Agreement, see Shareholders Agreement: majority/minority shareholders
  • for a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales

What are the key features?

  • form of new Articles of Association for the company
  • amendments and additions to the Companies Act 2006 Model Articles
  • process for the allotment of new shares
  • regulations governing the transfer of shares, including:
    • permitted transfers to defined classes of permitted transferees
    • pre-emption rights on the transfer of shares to third parties
    • compulsory transfer on a shareholder ceasing to be employed or breaching the shareholders agreement
    • tag-along and drag-along rights
  • regulation of shareholder meetings
  • rights of majority shareholder to appoint a majority of directors and rights of minority shareholder to appoint a single director
  • provisions relating to the proceedings of board meetings
  • regulation of directors’ conflicts of interest and transactions with directors

What other documents are available?

For template Articles of Association where the company is owned by equal 50/50 shareholders, see

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Updated by a lawyer on 03/09/2024

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