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Suzanne Bell is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. Suzanne has advised leading financial institutions and corporations in connection with a wide range of domestic, European and International structured finance and capital markets transactions. Her experience includes structuring and documenting commercial paper conduits, structured investment vehicles, and public and private securitisations of a range of asset classes, with particular focus on credit card receivables, auto loans and leases and trade receivables. Suzanne also has experience in advising a range of stakeholders (including receivers, directors and creditors) on debt restructurings and insolvency matters involving structured finance borrowers. Suzanne is admitted to practice in England and Wales and in Ireland.

Adam Blakemore is a Tax partner in Cadwalader’s London office. He advises on the taxation aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border corporate and financing transactions. He has advised on a wide range of financing transactions, including securitisations, hybrid capital issuances, repackagings, credit linked instruments, stock lending arrangements and a variety of financial products. Adam’s practice includes acting on restructurings in solvent and distressed debt situations, corporate reorganisations and reconstructions. He has a particular interest in the structuring and restructuring of investment funds, asset management entities and private equity financings. He also provides advice on corporate acquisitions, demergers and joint ventures, both within the UK and internationally, and provides counsel on disputes and litigation with revenue authorities, representing clients before the Appeal Courts. Adam is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Robert Cannon is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. He focuses on structured finance and securitisation, and has acted for arrangers, originators and asset managers on transactions involving a variety of structures and asset classes, including CDOs, CLOs, mortgage securitisations and commercial paper conduits. Robert is admitted to practice in England and Wales and in Ireland.

Alexander Collins

Alex Collins is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. Alex focuses on structured finance, with an emphasis on CLOs. He has acted on a wide range of cross-border structured finance transactions and in respect of CLOs, has represented arrangers, asset managers and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and warehouse facilities. Alex has been working on CLO transactions since the resurgence of the European CLO market a number of years ago and has advised on numerous public CLO transactions, warehouses and related transactions such as the establishment of originator retention structures and retention financings. Alex is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Rebecca Crowley

Rebecca Crowley is a partner in Cadwalader’s Finance Group and based in London. Rebecca focuses her practice on the financing, refinancing and acquisition financing of infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure assets, with particular experience in cross-border acquisition financing. She acts for sponsors, corporate borrowers, and lenders (infrastructure funds, bank lenders, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and pension funds) on a broad range of capital structures, with significant experience handling digital infrastructure and energy transactions. Rebecca has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK as a “Rising Star” in Infrastructure annually since 2021, with client feedback noting that she is “a name to note for cross-border acquisition financing” and “the best in the business.” She joined Cadwalader from the London office of a major global law firm, where she practiced in its finance department since 2015. She is admitted to practice in England & Wales.

Assia Damianova

Assia Damianova is special counsel in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader’s London office. Her practice focuses on complex financing transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes. Assia has extensive experience with derivative products (including credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps, equity derivatives, structured repos and other derivative instruments) and securitisation transactions, and related regulatory issues. In addition, she advises buy-side clients on a wide range of trading, compliance and portfolio management issues. Assia is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Matthew Duncan is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London Office. He advises a wide range of institutions and other entities that operate, invest in or deal with businesses that provide financial services and products to the consumer, financial, commercial and public sectors in the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions (including banks, lenders, credit funds, insurers, reinsurers, pension funds, alternative investment funds, investment managers, finance arrangers and fintechs). Matthew has played a significant role in many landmark, innovative “first of kind” transactions that have been widely followed by many issuers, including the first UK single-issuer, segregated, multi-issuance, residential mortgage-backed securities program. He has been involved with UK covered bonds since the first transaction in 2003 (prior to there being a legislative framework for such transactions in place). He has also played a leading role in advising fintech businesses and working on innovative fintech structured financings, especially involving the tokenization of assets and the use of smart contracts (typically using distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain) and artificial intelligence (AI), and he often speaks at conferences in this field. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Smridhi Gulati is a partner in Cadwalader’s Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group. She advises UK and international lenders, including private credit funds, banks and other financial institutions, as well as private equity sponsors and corporates on complex lending through the capital structure primarily in relation to UK and cross-border acquisition finance transactions including private equity backed buyouts, management buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and refinancing and restructurings of leveraged assets.

Bevis Metcalfe is a partner in Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Group and Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group based in London. Bevis is a well-known practitioner in the London finance and restructuring markets with a practice spanning all aspects of corporate credit, restructurings, complex cross-border insolvencies, and distressed M&A. Bevis has particular experience in infrastructure financings across a broad range of asset classes and jurisdictions.

Douglas Murning is a partner in the Fund Finance practice in London. With over 20 years’ experience in debt finance, Doug is regarded as a market leader in complex NAV and portfolio financings, having been at the forefront in the rise of the European market over recent years, primarily advising investment bank and credit fund clients. In addition to fund financing, he focuses his practice on leveraged finance, private debt and special situations, working with credit funds and private equity sponsors. Doug has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK as a Leading Partner for fund finance for the last four years and as an “expert in fund finance, leveraged finance and private debt.” Prior to joining Cadwalader in 2025, Doug was a partner in the global loans practice of a major international firm. Previously he served with two global law firms as a partner, including six years for one firm in Hong Kong, during which Chambers Asia-Pacific ranked Doug as a leading acquisition finance attorney. Doug has extensive experience in both Europe and Asia and has been additionally seconded to the leveraged finance and special situation groups of two leading global investment banks. Doug received a First Class degree in Law from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and his Common Professional Examination and Legal Practice Course from BPP Law school in 2002. He is admitted to practice law in England & Wales and in Hong Kong.

Sabah Nawaz is a special counsel in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. Sabah focuses on advising banks, private equity funds, pension funds, corporate borrowers and rating agencies on a wide range of complex cross-border structured finance, securitisation, debt capital markets, refinancing and restructuring transactions. Sabah is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Matthew Peters is a special counsel in Cadwalader’s Corporate and Real Estate practices and is based in the firm's London office. Matt’s practice focuses on corporate real estate and real estate private equity, including corporate and investment property acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings and reorganizations, particularly with regard to hotel portfolios, hotel and residential and logistics sites, with a focus on developments. He has experience advising both U.K. and international clients operating across a variety of jurisdictions and regularly works on significant cross-border transactions. Prior to joining Cadwalader in 2025, Matt practiced with the London real estate group of a global law firm. Matt holds an M.A. law degree from the University of Oxford, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 2008. He also completed his Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, London.

Gregory Petrick

Gregory M. Petrick, chair of Cadwalader's Financial Restructuring Group and Managing Partner of the London office, has represented debtors, official unsecured creditors’ committees, secured lenders, state regulators, and trustees in complex business reorganizations. His practice encompasses counseling secured and unsecured lenders, creditor committees, public bondholders, debtors, shareholders, and investors involved in many of the largest and most complex U.S. and international reorganizations and restructurings, financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. Greg has played a major role in the restructuring, reorganization, sale, or acquisition of businesses in the life insurance, financial services, telecommunications, energy, real estate, shipping, and hospitality industries. He has also led cross-border restructurings across Europe, Indonesia and Australia. Greg is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. He is also a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.

Alix Prentice is a partner in Cadwalader's Financial Services Group. She specializes in advising financial institutions and investors on the UK's financial services regulatory regime. Alix has over 20 years of experience (some gained at the regulator) of advising on regulatory requirements and relationships with regulators across a range of industries and asset classes, including family offices and private investors, hedge and other alternative fund managers, private equity, banks, broker-dealers, custodians, distributors, issuers and cryptocurrency businesses. Alix has particular expertise in alternative investment funds and the documentation of investments into these vehicles. She also has significant experience of regulated mergers and acquisitions, often involving complex changes of control and due diligence exercises.

Claire Puddicombe

Claire Puddicombe is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group, resident in the firm’s London office. Her practice is concentrated on securitisation, with particular focus on CLOs. Claire represents banks, arrangers, collateral managers and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and loan warehouse facilities, including advising MUFG Securities (as placement agent) in respect of the NIBC-managed €400 million North Westerly VI European cash flow CLO transaction, the first CLO to consider ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors across all its investments. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

David Quirolo is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group, resident in the London office. Focusing his practice primarily on CLOs, securitisation, asset finance and repackaging transactions involving various asset types in the United States and Europe, he represents banks, arrangers and asset managers in a variety of structured finance transactions. David has extensive experience using “cash flow,” “market value,” and hybrid structures, and is recognised as a leading practitioner in the CLO 2.0 market. David also represents the Loan Market Association in relation to regulation affecting the CLO market. He regularly meets with regulators and policy makers in relation to securitisation regulation. David is admitted to practice in England and Wales, in the State of New York and in Ireland.

Nick Shiren is a partner in the Capital Markets Group, resident in the London office. His practice focuses on a broad range of capital markets and financing transactions, with a focus on structured finance. In particular, Nick has extensive experience in derivative products (including credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps, repos and other derivative instruments), structured credit transactions (including collateralised loan obligations) and securitisation transactions (including securitisations of residential and commercial mortgages and consumer assets). He represents leading investment banks, arrangers, issuers and collateral managers in transactions throughout Europe and the United States. Nick is admitted to practice in England and Wales and the State of New York.

Matthew Smith is a partner in Cadwalader’s Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group in London. Matthew advises private equity sponsors, private credit funds, banks and corporate borrowers on leveraged and general finance transactions across a range of sectors. Matthew is widely recognised as a leading individual for private credit and direct lending transactions.

Daniel Tobias is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group in London. Daniel specialises in securitisation, with a focus on CLOs. Daniel has represented arrangers, collateral managers and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and loan warehouse facilities. Daniel has been working on CLO transactions since the resurgence of the European CLO market several years ago. He has advised on numerous CLOs, including those with complex originator retention structures.

Matt Worth is a partner in the Fund Finance practice in London. Matt’s practice covers all aspects of fund finance and private credit, with a particular focus on advising on NAV financings for private equity sponsors and direct lending. Matt also has significant experience in a broad range of debt finance, including leveraged finance, project and infrastructure finance, special situations and restructuring. He has been recognized by The Legal 500 UK for his work in complex fund financing where it is noted that “his restructuring experience is invaluable to lender clients”. Prior to joining Cadwalader in 2025, Matt was a counsel in the global loans practice of a major international firm. Previously he served with two global law firms in Hong Kong, where he focused his practice on special situations. While in Hong Kong, Matt was also seconded to the principalling legal Asia team of a leading global investment bank.