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Mayer Brown Offices
Mayer Brown
1221 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10020-1001
NEW YORK
United States
1221 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10020-1001
NEW YORK
United States
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Joanne De Silva
1 212 596 9280 [email protected]
Work Department
Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Joanne co-leads the firm’s U.S. direct lending practice. Her practice includes debt and equity investments and restructurings across the capital structure. She represents business development companies, debt investment funds, banks, and other institutional investors in a diverse range of transactions including unitranche, senior and junior secured, and mezzanine transactions.
She has extensive experience with intercreditor arrangements including agreements among lenders, first lien/second lien and split collateral intercreditor agreements, and subordination agreements.
Joanne is qualified to practice in New York and is a solicitor in England and Wales. She was previously qualified as a barrister in England and Wales, and was a practicing advocate and solicitor in Singapore.
Languages
French; Malay
Education
BA (Jurisprudence), With Honors, University of Oxford, 1991
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Tax > International tax
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Government > Government relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense