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Fergus Wheeler
Work Department
Partner: Special Situations & Private Credit
Position
Fergus Wheeler focuses on private credit and other debt finance transactions in the leveraged finance space. His experience in leveraged finance spans over 15 years. He works with many of the most active private credit investors, and has been at the forefront of legal developments in that asset class for more than a decade. He advises international private credit funds and a range of alternative capital providers investing across the capital structure in both performing and stressed or distressed situations. Fergus is widely recognized in the market as one of the leading holdco financing lawyers, having advised on multiple holdco PIK, preferred equity and complex back leverage transactions over the past decade.
Education
LL.B., Trinity College, Dublin, 2000
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Acquisition finance
(Firms to watch)The arrival of private credit expert Fergus Wheeler from White & Case LLP in March 2023 has hugely enhanced Akin
‘s potential in the leveraged finance space as well as on the special situations front, where he can effectively leverage the firm’s market-leading restructuring practice.
London > Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
While it has limited traction among conventional banking clients, Akin continues to grow its private credit-focused new money and special situations expertise, an area that was further enhanced by the arrival in January 2023 of Fergus Wheeler from White & Case LLP. Other niche areas areas of focus include team head Tom O’Connor‘s representation to institutional investors on privately placed debt and equity securities, and on cross-border financing transactions. Robert Aulsebrook has a focus on emerging markets work.
Lawyer Rankings
- Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans London > Finance
- Firms to watch London > Finance > Acquisition finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Finance > Acquisition finance