Matthew Tobin > Slaughter and May > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Slaughter and May Offices

ONE BUNHILL ROW
LONDON
EC1Y 8YY
England
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Matthew Tobin

Work Department
Financing
Capital Markets
Securitisation
Restructuring and Insolvency
Infrastructure and Energy
Debt Capital Markets
Acquisition and Leveraged Finance
Derivatives
Corporate and investment grade lending
Environmental, Social and Governance
Position
Partner; Matthew is Head of our Debt Capital Markets practice. He advises on a wide range of banking and financing work, including acquisition and bid financing, capital markets and securitisation transactions. Matthew also leads our Sustainable Finance practice which has advised on several green bonds issued by banks and multinationals and also green loans.
Career
Joined firm 1996. Partner since 2005.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Property finance
Slaughter and May’s finance team regularly collaborates with the firm’s real estate and construction practices to provide well-rounded advice regarding real estate and development financing. Matthew Tobin – who heads the practice – is well-regarded by clients concerning loan facilities, and financing retail facilities. Ed Fife often acts on leveraged finance, and infrastructure financing transactions.
London > Finance > Acquisition finance
Leveraging ‘stellar experience and knowledge of current market practice’, Slaughter and May is very well-equipped to advise its borrower-focused client base across the full array of their financing needs, including to facilitate big-ticket M&A mandates. Although it does handle a small amount of private equity work, the majority of the firm’s deal flow originates from its market-leading corporate practice which counts an impressive volume of FTSE 100/250 clients at its disposal. Lawyers within the team are well-versed in advising across the gamut of financing products, including TLBs, unitranche, and loan/high yield bond hybrid structures, as well as offering a strong “certain funds” public bid finance practice. Team head Matthew Tobin is recommended.
London > Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
(Leading partners)Slaughter and May provides a ‘first-class service’ to its pre-eminent roster of investment-grade corporates, guiding them through the full spectrum of their debt financing requirements, be it in the context of general corporate lending, event-driven financings or refinancings. The firm is also abreast of current market practice, including as it relates to sustainability-linked financings, and is also noted for its ‘good use of technology in managing large exercises’. In his role as overarching finance head, Matthew Tobin handles acquisition and bid financing mandates, as well as regularly advising on sustainability-linked loans and bonds. Ed Fife handles a diverse range of work for large corporate clients, running the gamut from acquisition and bid financings through to transformational refinancings and treasury-related work. As well as her wide-ranging finance work for investment-grade corporates from a broad array of industry sectors, Caroline Phillips also regularly assists private equity sponsors’ portfolio companies with their ongoing financing needs. Robert Byk is also recommended, as is the ‘customer-focused and commercial’ Azadeh Nassiri.
London > Finance > Debt capital markets
(Leading partners)The ‘prompt and attentive‘ debt capital markets practice at Slaughter and May is best known for advising blue-chip corporate issuers on regulatory capital and liability management transactions, equity-linked deals, EMTN programmes, US private placements, green and sustainably-linked bonds, and more. Nevertheless, the firm increasingly acts for financial institutions including major banks and insurance companies, as well as trustees. Practice head Caroline Phillips and key partner Guy O’Keefe are ‘great problem solvers and solutions providers‘. Phillips has a strong financial institution issuer client base, and she recently assisted a Chinese bank with its $300m offering of green notes. Matthew Tobin is ‘readily accessible, providing prompt, clear and commercial advice‘. He leads the broader finance practice, and is also head of sustainable finance. Ed Fife, who acted for an energy company in the update of its $10bn EMTN programme, Robert Byk, and up-an-coming partners Kevin Howes and Charlie McGarel-Groves are also active in the DCM arena.
Lawyer Rankings
- Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans London > Finance
- Leading partners London > Finance > Debt capital markets
- Leading partners London > Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Debt capital markets London > Finance
- Acquisition finance London > Finance
- Property finance London > Real estate
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+)