Alston & Bird LLP

Bijal advises investment firms across the private markets, with close to 25 years of experience structuring complex transactions that require bespoke capital solutions. He represents private equity funds, credit opportunity funds, insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, business development companies, family offices, and other private investment firms. He advises clients in structuring and negotiating equity, debt, and hybrid capital investments, including growth equity, structured equity, venture debt (senior secured or mezzanine), hybrid capital, and buyout transactions.

Bijal is frequently engaged in transactions involving regulated industries, including health care and insurance, as well as transactions with significant cross-border elements. He also regularly advises portfolio companies of his investor clients on leveraged finance transactions undertaken in connection with their sponsors’ equity investments.

Bijal often counsels investors and businesses in special situations, including the management, recapitalization, or redeployment of capital in underperforming, distressed, or transitional investments. These matters involve complex workouts, rescue financings, and restructuring-oriented solutions that require an integrated understanding of the interests of both lender and owner.