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Slaughter and May Offices

ONE BUNHILL ROW
LONDON
EC1Y 8YY
England
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Richard Jones

Work Department
Financing
Capital Markets
Securitisation
Derivatives
Debt Capital Markets
Corporate and investment grade lending
Position
Partner; Richard has a wide-ranging financing practice covering bank lending, debt capital markets, securitisations, structured finance, project finance, asset-backed lending and derivatives. He has acted for a number of high profile clients including both listed and private companies, banks and other financial institutions, pension funds, private equity firms and various governments.
Richard has experience across a wide number of industries, including the banking, consumer credit and wider financial sector, insurance, leisure and hospitality and energy and natural resources.
Career
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
At Slaughter and May, ‘the client ethos is all-pervasive‘. The multi-specialist finance group handles a broad range of work for corporates, though it continues to expand its bank-side business. The ‘technically brilliant‘ Oliver Wicker and Richard Jones lead the group and are highly skilled in derivatives, while standout partners Ed Fife and Guy O’Keefe are key advisers to corporates, governmental entities and financial institutions. ‘Her knowledge and attention to detail is outstanding‘, say clients of Caroline Phillips, whose recent work includes developing a secured commodity trading platform.
London > Finance > Securitisation
Slaughter and May has ‘an incredibly strong team with understanding of not only securitisation, but other relevant areas such as derivatives and corporate finance‘. The firm’s multi-specialist approach sees its key partners handle a wide variety of finance transactions, but practice head Richard Jones and key practitioners Oliver Wicker, Guy O’Keefe and Caroline Phillips are also vastly experienced in public and private deals. Robert Byk also plays a key role in the practice. The firm works with financial institutions, investment funds, insurers, pension funds and sovereign entities, but is best known for its advice to corporate issuers.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Industry focus > TMT
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Property finance
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)