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Alfred Xue

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Position

Alfred Xue serves as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Banking Practice. Alfred is a member of the Private Capital, Banking, Capital Markets, and Restructuring & Special Situations Practices. He represents private credit funds, lead arrangers, direct lenders, and other financial institutions in leveraged finance transactions, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions and acquisition financings. Over the past five years, Alfred has led more than 120 unitranche, direct lending, and syndicated loan transactions with an issuance value exceeding US$95 billion. 30 of these transactions have issuance values over US$1 billion.

Alfred representative clients include various private credit funds, investment banks, direct lenders, leading domestic banks, and leading European financial institutions, including:

    • Apollo
    • Barclays Bank
    • Citibank
    • Goldman Sachs
    • Golub Capital Markets
    • HPS Investment Partners
    • Jefferies Finance
    • JPMorgan Chase Bank
    • Morgan Stanley
    • Royal Bank of Canada
    • Stone Point Capital

He is also a member of Latham’s Finance Department’s Opinions and Confirmations Committee and formerly served on the firm’s Recruiting Committee.

Recognition Highlights

    • Recognized for Banking & Finance by Chambers USA 2021-2024
    • Described as “highly rated” and recommended for Commercial Lending, The Legal 500 US
      • Leading Lawyer for Commercial Lending, The Legal 500 US 2023-2024
      • Next Generation Partner for Commercial Lending, The Legal 500 US 2017-2022
    • Named a Top 500 Leading Dealmaker in America by LawDragon 2021-2024
    • Named a Rising Star for Banking by IFLR 1000 2021-2023
    • Named a Rising Star for Banking by Law360 2020
    • Named a Rising Star by the New York Law Journal 2019
    • “Leads complex financings for an exceptional roster of clients around the world” NYLJ Rising Star Awards 2019

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United States > Finance > Commercial lending

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Alfred Xue – Latham & Watkins LLP

Banking powerhouse Latham & Watkins LLP is commended by clients on both the lender and borrower sides, with one noting that its ‘legal knowledge is robust and informed by significant experience in the space.’ On the lending side, it represents the large traditional banks on leveraged and acquisition financings, as well as direct lenders, in the form of non-bank financial institutions and debt funds. Its deep expertise fully equips the team to handle large unitranche financings in the billion-dollar range. Other areas of expertise include its work with sponsors and their portfolio companies on liability management financing transactions. On the borrower side, the team works with major corporation on a range of borrower-side financings. At practice head level, the New York office includes Daniel Seale who is skilled at handling acquisition financings and is highly regarded in the direct lending market; Alfred Xue who is a key name for traditional bank lenders and direct lenders on cross-border financings and Joshua Tinkelman who is highlighted for his work handling leveraged buyouts. Also forming part of practice head offering is Jason R. Bosworth in Los Angeles and Jason M. Licht in Washington DC. The team is ably supported by Michèle Penzer in New York who handles acquisition and project financings, along with Corey Wright and Lisa Collier who are also New York-based. Manu Gayatrinath  is also highlighted as a notable member of the team. Jennifer Ezring joined the New York office from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in October 2023.

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