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Graham Penn
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International finance.
Position
Graham is a partner in Sidley’s London office, a member of the executive committee and co-head of the global international finance practice. His practice focuses on structured debt and capital markets transactions, including securitisations with a particular focus on real estate. Since the commencement of the ongoing credit crisis he has been engaged on numerous commercial real estate work-out and restructuring transactions in a wide range of European jurisdictions. His structured finance practice includes both domestic and cross-border transactions in a variety of different asset classes including commercial and residential real estate, representing arrangers, originators, investors and servicers/special servicers and investors. He advises on all aspects of real estate finance including real estate lending, real estate acquisition finance and CMBS, representing sponsors, investors (senior/junior), borrowers, servicers/special servicers and lenders. More recently he has advised many such clients on restructuring, work-out, insolvency and enforcement strategies in respect of both balance sheet and securitised real estate loans. He has also worked on a number of CMBS restructurings. Formerly a full-time academic, he retains his close connections with London University as a visiting professor of international finance at University College. He is a regular speaker at international finance conferences in the UK and abroad.
Career
Qualified England and Wales (solicitor) 1989. Publications of note: editor of ‘Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation’ since 1986. Graham has authored/co-authored a number of leading books in the fields of banking law and international finance and is editor of JIBLR.
