Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Chris Barron focuses almost exclusively on borrower-side work for private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other privately-owned businesses. Chris has experience advising on a broad variety of UK-domestic and cross-border loan and bank/bond leveraged financings.

Mr. Beechey is a corporate partner in Fried Frank's asset management practice, resident in the London office. He is a regulatory specialist who focuses on alternative investment funds and the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). Mr. Beechey counsels a range of financial sector clients in connection with issues related to financial promotion, authorization and ongoing compliance, structuring and marketing, regulatory capital, agreements with customers and service providers, anti-money laundering and Financial Conduct Authority regulation generally.

Tom Bramallprovides guidance on the tax aspects of a wide range of matters, including fund formation and structuring, financing arrangements, executive compensation, M&A and real estate transactions. He has a particular focus on alternative investment funds. In addition to his legal qualifications, Tom is chartered tax advisor.

Devon Brewster has broad experience acting on a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions, with particular focus on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on leveraged finance deals.

Mr. Caddy is a partner in the corporate department and the finance practice, resident in Fried Frank's London office. His practice focuses on leveraged finance, direct lending and restructuring situations advising arrangers, funds, sponsors, trustees and corporates across a wide range of products including cov-lite, unitranche, bank-bond, transatlantic, second lien, mezz, private high yield and holdco PIK.

Dr. Caspary is a partner in the antitrust department and divides his time between Fried Frank's London and Frankfurt offices. Dr. Caspary’s practice covers European, UK and German competition law. He advises and represents clients before the EC, the CMA, and the German Federal Cartel Office. Dr. Caspary has worked on some of the largest and most complex cross-border mergers worldwide; and has advised in connection with numerous competition investigations, including Phase II cases before the EC and the CMA, and cartel investigations in sectors such as window mountings, car components and fuel surcharge. He has a strong focus on private equity, and represents clients across a range of industries, including media, telecoms, technology, and financial services. Dr. Caspary also advises on economic sanctions and other trade regulatory matters.

Ms. Cecil is a partner in the corporate department and the finance practice, resident in Fried Frank’s London office. Ms. Cecil represents sponsors, banks, funds and public and private companies on a wide range of finance transactions. Ms. Cecil’s experience includes structuring, negotiating and documenting complex financings at all levels of the capital structure with a focus on fund finance and leveraged finance. Ms. Cecil advises on fund subscription and NAV facilities as well as other fund financing arrangements. Ms. Cecil also acts on leveraged finance and direct lending transactions as well as special situations and debt restructuring transactions.

Tiana Cherry is an associate in the Capital Markets Practice and resident in the firm’s London office. Tiana advises issuers, underwriters and private equity sponsors on an extensive range of capital markets transactions, including IPOs, private placements, follow-on and secondary offerings, investment-grade debt offerings and other domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions. Public companies also seek Tiana’s advice on Rule 144A/Reg S offerings and compliance with SEC and stock exchanges rules and regulations.

David Christmas

David Christmas advises fund managers, sponsors, financial institutions, family offices, and investors on the structuring and establishment of alternative investment funds. David’s practice encompasses a broad range of asset classes including private equity, credit, infrastructure, venture and growth, and real estate funds, with a particular emphasis on structuring complex and multi-jurisdictional funds.

Ross Cruickshanks

Ross Cruickshanks has broad experience acting on a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions, with particular focus on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on leveraged finance deals.

Oliver Curralladvises on U.K. and international tax matters, with a particular focus on private equity and M&A transactions, and tax structuring for investment funds and asset managers. Oliver has advised major private equity sponsors on their deals, and works with leading managers on the structuring of their funds and the operation of their U.K. management company and asset holding structures. Oliver’s practice is frequently international in scope, and he works closely with Fried Frank’s US tax practice and with local experts to deliver cross-border tax advice for clients.

Aseet Dalvi is a partner in Fried Frank's Corporate Department, resident in the firm's London office. Aseet's transactional experience spans a wide range of debt and equity capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions transactions and liability management and restructuring transactions. He also regularly advises clients on compliance with their obligations under the US and English securities laws.

Freya Dear provides experienced counsel to clients in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions. Freya acts for a variety of multi-jurisdictional clients including developers, institutional property investors, corporate landlords, and corporate occupiers. Her practice has a particular focus on acquisitions and disposals, major City of London lettings and re-gears, real estate finance, and joint ventures and structured investments.

An asset management partner and head of Fried Frank’s European private equity funds practice. Ms. Downey specialises in fund formation, representing fund sponsors and financial institutions across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture and growth, infrastructure, credit and real estate. She has experience in advising fund managers on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements, including leveraged co-investment arrangements. Additional experience in a broad range of international private equity transactions, including secondary portfolio acquisitions and synthetic secondaries, fund and management company restructurings and other general corporate matters.

David Evans advises on all aspects of real estate joint ventures as well as mergers and acquisitions in the operational real estate arena. David also has considerable experience in fund structuring, for both UK and pan-European funds, with particular expertise in Luxembourg structures.

Amy Faraday advises private investment management firms, corporates, and facility borrowers on cross-border and U.K. restructurings and insolvencies across multiple industry sectors.

James Frecknall

James Frecknall represents corporates, financial institutions, and private equity houses on a wide spectrum of cross-border transactions. James’s practice includes advising on public and private disposals and acquisitions and strategic joint ventures as well as capital markets transactions, minority investments and GP-led secondary transactions. He also has experience advising on a number of restructurings and distressed sales processes.

Alexander Goldsmith

Alexander Goldsmith is an experienced UK tax lawyer, with significant expertise in M&A and funds transactions as well as a broad range of real estate, finance and corporate activities. He has advised in relation to significant disputes with the UK tax authority and in relation to matters of interpretation of contractual tax provisions, and has wide-ranging cross-border experience.

Graham Greenwood

Mr. Greenwood is an associate in Fried Frank's finance practice, resident in the Firm's London office. He represents international investment banks, private debt funds, financial sponsors and borrowers on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-jurisdictional transactions. He specializes in leveraged acquisitions, term loan B, bank-bond financings and restructurings and has extensive experience in funds financing, including both subscription and GP liquidity lines as well as asset level leverage and gearing facilities.

Karen Henderson

Karen Henderson advises our clients on the structuring, establishment, operation of, and investment into alternative investment funds across all major asset classes. Her clients include fund managers, investment advisors, and other financial institutions. Karen’s practice encompasses private equity, venture and growth, credit, infrastructure, renewables, impact and real estate. She also advises in relation to fund financing transactions, separately managed accounts, fund-of-fund structures, carried interest and co-investment schemes, and secondary transactions. Karen also advises significant investors in respect of their investments into private investment funds.

Tony Horspool primarily advises on special situations and restructurings. He has advised stakeholders on many of the most significant restructurings of the last thirty years, both in the UK and in all major EU and common law jurisdictions. Tony’s extensive experience includes advising creditors, investors, debtors, officeholders, directors and shareholders, including credit funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, investment banks, asset managers, portfolio companies and accountancy firms on restructurings, insolvencies, financings, distressed M&A, portfolio acquisitions and litigation.

Christian Iwasko

Christian Iwasko has over 20 years of experience advising private equity sponsors on complex business transactions, including leveraged buyouts, structured equity, growth equity, distressed investments, debt and equity restructurings, complex equity platforms, management incentive plans, fund formations, and GP stakes.

Ryan Jenkinson represents lenders, arrangers, private equity sponsors, funds and public and private corporations in a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition financings, high-yield and syndicated bank financings, direct lending, fund financing and distressed company financings.

Mr. Katz is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank's London office. He has extensive experience advising distressed investors, borrowers, financial institutions, bondholders and insolvency practitioners in relation to all aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters. He advises on a range of cross-border and UK restructurings and insolvencies including matters in the automotive, real estate, construction, financial services, retail and leisure sectors. Mr. Katz has lectured on a range of insolvency topics including the Eurozone crisis, cross border insolvency administration, anti-avoidance provisions, employment/ insolvency law, directors’ duties and customer insolvency.

Eshan Khot advises on both the debtor and creditor side, representing corporates, borrowers, issuers, private investment management firms as well as insolvency practitioners on UK and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. This ranges from structuring front-end finance solutions to contentious and non-contentious restructuring matters.

Hannah Lee advises private equity clients on a range of transactions in the private funds secondaries market and asset management M&A, and is recognized by Legal 500 UK as a key lawyer for Private Equity: Transactions – High-Value Deals category.

Mr. Lehmann is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's London office. He represents clients, including private equity sponsors, investment banks, hedge funds and public and private companies, on a wide range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions across all levels of the capital structure. His experience covers leveraged buyout financings including public to private transactions, real estate finance transactions, US Term Loan B and bank-bond financings, structured finance transactions (including fund level financings), investment grade finance transactions and other complex financing and restructuring transactions.

Mr. Lopez is a partner in the corporate department and the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices. He has a broad range of experience in a variety of corporate finance transactions, including public M&A, private M&A, equity capital market transactions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. Mr. Lopez has represented companies in numerous industries, including financial services, media & telecom, insurance, healthcare, and consumer goods, among others.

Brett Masters is an associate in the Capital Markets Practice and resident in the firm’s London office. Brett works with issuers, underwriters and sponsors on corporate governance matters and a range of cross-border capital markets transactions, including SEC registered public offerings, Rule 144A/Reg S offerings and other public and private financings. Brett has experience assisting clients with initial public offerings, private placements, high-yield bond and sovereign debt offerings and other capital raising transactions.

Zac Mellor-Clark

Zac Mellor-Clark is a funds regulatory specialist, who helps global asset managers navigate European financial services regulation. With deep expertise relating to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), Zac counsels some of the world’s largest asset managers on issues relating to the structuring and marketing of private funds within the UK and Europe. Within recent years, Zac has been heavily involved in the retailisation movement within the European private funds sector, having worked on a number of flagship ELTIF and UCI Part II funds.

Mr. Mifsud is an asset management partner and the managing partner of Fried Frank’s London office. He represents international clients in a broad range of transactions, with an emphasis on advising private fund managers in relation to the structuring and establishment of private investment funds, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and debt funds. Extensive experience advising clients in relation to secondaries, incentive schemes, carried interest arrangements and co-investment plans. Also counsels private investment managers, significant limited partners and other parties on related matters and general corporate finance.

Geoff O’Dea counsels clients in relation to all aspects of domestic and cross-border finance, special situations and restructuring and insolvency matters. Geoff’s clients include private equity, family office and special situations investors, direct lenders, banks, security agents, insolvency practitioners, restructuring advisors, boards, independent directors and corporate clients. His extensive experience enables him to provide valuable advice on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency, including cross-border matters. Geoff also has significant expertise in acquisition finance, working with clients on lending products such as European term Loan B, unitranche, bank/bond financings, and rescue financings.

Nishkaam Paul is a regulatory lawyer with particular expertise in funds regulation and assists global asset managers in negotiating European financial services regulation. Nishkaam’s practice involves counselling some of the world’s largest asset managers on issues relating to the structuring, marketing and maintenance of private funds within the UK and Europe and a breadth of related regulation, with a particular focus on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and the Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) Regulation. He also advises clients on issues relating to regulated activities and FCA authorisation in the UK, regulatory approvals for changes of control (both in Europe and globally) and regulatory capital.

Richard Pilgrim

Richard Pilgrim advises our clients on a broad range of tax matters, including public and private mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, corporate restructurings, financings and capital markets transactions, real estate deals, and fund formation and structuring.

Mr. Qureshi is a partner in the corporate department and head of EMEA global transactions, resident in Fried Frank's London office. He concentrates practice on international corporate transactions, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance, covering Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has experience representing international financial institutions, including underwriters, as well as corporations and governments on IPOs, equity and debt securities (including high-yield), complex hedge fund and private equity transactions and structures, rights offerings, and restructurings and privatisations.

Aranpreet Randhawa

Aranpreet Randhawa advises European and international clients on the structuring, formation, and operation of both open- and closed-ended investment funds across various strategies, including private equity, growth, infrastructure, and real estate. Aranpreet also regularly advises on spin-outs, co-investments, end-of-life restructurings, and the establishment of carried interest and co-investment schemes.

Andrew Rearick advises private equity firms, their portfolio companies and other institutional investors on a full range of cross-border transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, in Europe, North America and emerging markets. He is one of Europe’s leading advisers on general partner (GP)-led transactions, having advised sponsors and investors on some of the largest and most high-profile continuation fund transactions, fund recapitalizations and restructurings, tender offers and fund-level preferred equity investments.

James Renahan is a private equity partner who advises clients on complex cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. He has more than 20 years of experience acting for international private equity sponsors, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders, investee companies and other pan-European and international corporates for both transactional and advisory matters. James has particular experience across a range of industries, including media, technology, leisure and hospitality, financial services, manufacturing, real estate and transportation and logistics.

Priya Rupal advises on a broad range of corporate matters, with a focus on private equity and private M&A transactions. She is an experienced advisor to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, specialising in leveraged buyouts, structured equity investments, distressed investments, equity and debt restructurings, joint ventures, management incentive plans and GP stake sales.

John Satory is of counsel and a retired partner in Fried Frank's Corporate Department and Capital Markets Practice, resident in the firm's London office. John has worked on a large number of high-profile matters in Europe, Asia, and North America, and has a particular focus on Northern Europe. Clients turn to him in connection with equity capital markets transactions, debt and other securities offerings, and other securities law considerations arising in restructurings, M&A and private equity transactions, and related financings in Europe and globally. He also advises clients on corporate governance, SEC reporting, and other compliance matters.

Roger Schofield

Roger Schofield advises clients on corporate real estate joint ventures, capital solutions, acquisitions and dispositions, and other real estate-related M&A. Roger counsels clients through complex transactions and restructurings in all sectors of the property market, and has advised global real estate investors, developers, and owners on acquisitions and dispositions of real estate-holding structures, and real estate operators in the UK and Europe.

Katie Sinclair has broad experience advising on complex leveraged buy-outs and refinancings, with a particular focus acting borrower-side for private equity houses and their portfolio companies on leveraged acquisition finance transactions.

Nick Skill advises clients on a variety of UK and cross border corporate finance transactions, including public and private M&A, equity capital market transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and on minority stake deals in fund managers.

Neema Sofaer advises clients on tax matters. Neema’s practice includes tax aspects of cross-border corporate and finance transactions, tax disputes and standalone tax issues.

Athena Tan acts for a range of fund sponsors and advises on an array of investment fund-related matters. Clients benefit from Athena’s experience in structuring and establishing new funds, regulatory issues, and investor participation in investment funds.

Andrea Thomas advises an international client base of borrowers, sponsors, funds and financial institutions on the full spectrum of fund-level financing transactions, with extensive experience in subscription credit facilities, NAV facilities, hybrid facilities, single investor facilities, secondary funds facilities, and co-investment facilities across various fund and asset classes (including private equity funds, credit funds, infrastructure funds, secondary funds, real estate funds and emerging market funds).

Sarah Thomas has considerable experience in all aspects of commercial real estate and specialises in development transactions within both the commercial and large-scale residential markets with a focus on the logistic, hotel and leisure, student accommodation and the build-to-rent/private rented sectors. The nature of her practice means that she regularly leads large multi-disciplinary transactions, often involving complex joint venture structures, forward funding arrangements, significant pre-lets and high value sales and purchases. Sarah is an expert in housing led development, having worked for the leading stakeholders in this sector throughout her career. As an accredited mediator with almost 20 years’ experience, Sarah consistently adopts a direct and solution focussed approach to ensure that large scale and complex transactions are completed efficiently and without unnecessary complications.

Nick Thornton has more than 25 years of international commercial tax practice experience and advises our clients on the tax aspects of investment fund structures and transactions. Clients seek Nick’s representation on a range of matters including fund formations, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, corporate restructurings, securities offerings, and financings. Nick maintains a particular focus on fund structures and transactions with an international dimension.

Michelle Tong is an experienced advisor to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, specialising in leveraged buyouts, structured equity investments, distressed investments, equity and debt restructurings, joint ventures, management incentive plans and GP stake sales.

Patrick Williams

Mr. Williams is a partner in Fried Frank's European real estate group, resident in London. Mr. Williams has wide transactional experience on real estate driven transactions, including complex real estate investment transactions, mixed-use developments and pre-letting arrangements, joint venture agreements and forward-funding arrangements. Mr. Williams acts for a broad mix of clients, including property investment companies, global real estate fund managers, banks, infrastructure development and land promoter specialists, ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices, and a range of Asian sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises.

Mr. Wilson is a corporate partner in Fried Frank's asset management practice, resident in the London office. He has extensive experience representing private investment fund managers, sponsors, financial institutions and investors in relation to the establishment and operation of a wide range of private investment funds, including private equity, credit, infrastructure, growth and real estate. He also advises clients on co-investment structuring, fund financing arrangements and other complex corporate transactions.

Claire Zhu advises private equity sponsors, institutional investors and corporate clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. Her practice spans the full investment lifecycle, including control and minority acquisitions, GP stakes investments, secondary transactions and joint ventures. Claire also regularly advises on corporate reorganisations, corporate governance matters and other strategic corporate matters.