Corporate Finance

We work closely with our mergers and acquisitions colleagues in acquisition financings and with our capital markets experts on domestic and foreign placements, the latter including Rule 144A/Reg S structures; and advise clients in all types of domestic and international financing facilities, including structured transactions. We draw extensively on the expertise of other specialist practice areas, such as tax, environmental, labor, and litigation. Consequently, our specialists bring significant hands-on experience to create concrete advantages for our clients, in particular pertaining to Due Diligence, Representations and Warranties and Covenant issues that are all too relevant in finance deal-making.

Our experience includes:

• Acquisition and Leveraged Financing, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt and high yield bonds
• Project Finance in all industries, domestic and with cross-border components
• Loan Finance of all kinds, including syndicate and cross-border lending
• Capital Market Financing, including issuance of shares, bonds, commercial papers, medium term notes, and other securities and issuances, including deal-making under Rule 144-A and Reg
• Securitisations of all types of assets, including esoteric assets, employing a variety of structures
• Leasing and Asset Finance for capital assets
• Derivatives of various types and forms, including interest rate, currency, commodity, insurance and swaps and options
• High Profile Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency cases
• Financial services and Capital Markets regulatory advice and administrative litigation