Mr Alex Dell > Mayer Brown International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Generally eschewing the more commoditised domestic lower-to-mid market mandates in favour of complex highly structured mandates, Mayer Brown International LLP is particularly well-suited to advising on cross-border mandates, often involving complex inter-creditor arrangements. Many of these are US-originated deals, where the UK team, which is headed by Alex Dell, often works alongside lawyers in Chicago and New York, or handles European deals for US-owned lenders. The vastly experienced Simon Fisher is often at the forefront of these large syndicated cross-border and transatlantic transactions, and he excels at working in a collegial way with colleagues in Europe and the US. Ravi Amin is also ‘superb’ at handling receivables financing and ABL transactions, as is Dominic Griffiths, whose expertise on ABL and more broadly across trade receivables and structured finance is reflective of the firm’s nimble and agile approach to work in the space. The arrival of dual UK and US-qualified Victoria Thompson, who ‘knows her way around market documents in great depth’, in September 2023 from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP bolsters the team’s offering in the space for banks and private credit providers, both on new money deals and restructurings.

Mayer Brown International LLP delivers an ‘exceptional quality of legal advice’ to a lender-focused client base implementing debt sourced through private credit, as well as the syndicated loans market. Handling relatively commoditised corporate lending work for investment-grade borrowers, the firm also regularly advises on cross-over credits often involving multiple tranches of debt and complex inter-creditor arrangements. Leveraging its market-leading cross-border asset-based lending offering, the team, which is headed by Alex Dell, regularly advises the lead arranging bank on syndicated transactions which involve a borrowing base or receivables facility sitting alongside a term loan facility. Ash McDermott regularly utilises borrowing base facilities, as well as other secured lending products including commodity and trade financing, for emerging markets transactions. Trevor Borthwick recently retired.

The global trade finance team at Mayer Brown International LLP is ‘knowledgeable, has wide coverage in Europe, and is capable of meeting challenging deadlines‘. Advising banks, funds, corporates and fintech companies on a wide range of trade finance transactions, the firm is particularly focused on cross-border matters, and lawyers in London work closely with colleagues in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US to handle inventory monetisation deals, syndicated finance structures, trade receivables and non-recourse receivables structures, and transactions backed by national export credit agencies. Head of banking and finance Alex Dell and ‘fantastic individual‘ Charles Thain have ‘very broad knowledge of complex receivables purchase and payables finance structures‘. Ashley McDermott‘s practice is dedicated to complex, cross-border loan financings, notably in emerging markets, as well as export and agency finance, and structured trade and commodity finance.