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Tom Budd

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

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Global finance group.

Position

Tom Budd is an English-qualified partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he serves as co-partner-in-charge of the office. He is co-chair of the firm's global finance practice group and a member of the firm's business restructuring and reorganisation, financial institutions and private equity practice groups. Mr Budd has more than 20 years of experience in a wide range of banking, capital markets and restructuring transactions, with particular expertise in corporate lending and syndications, acquisition finance, structured finance, trade finance, real estate finance, securitisation, capital markets transactions and debt restructuring transactions. He has represented borrowers, sponsors and banks and financial institutions. Mr Budd also has substantial experience in the establishment and financing of real estate investment funds and other co-investment vehicles (including limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, joint venture companies, unit trusts and FCPs), representing investors, sponsors, management and debt finance providers. Mr Budd's practice also includes representation of companies and creditors in debt restructurings and workouts. Representative clients include The British Land Company Plc, Barilla Holding SpA, Intel Corporation, The Law Debenture Trust Corporation Plc, The Gibraltar Limited Partnership, Pacific Coast Capital Partners, Standard Bank Plc, Hercules Unit Trust, Schroder Exempt Property Unit Trust and Schroder Property Investment Management Ltd.

Member

Law Society of England and Wales; City of London Solicitors' Company; International Bar Association.

Education

University of Cambridge (1985 LLM); University of Queensland (1980 B.Comm; 1982 LLB).

Practice Areas

Finance - asset; Finance - property; Insolvency and corporate recovery

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