Claire Bridcut > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile

The ‘commercial, innovative and practical‘ structured credit group at Milbank is best known for its work on CLOs, but it also has a full-service derivatives practice that acts for the firm’s project, leveraged and aviation finance clients in Europe and Asia on large-scale hedging transactions. Practice head James Warbey and Robert Wyse-Jackson ‘have really great market knowledge from their position as pre-eminent manager counsel in the market‘. Claire Bridcut is a key adviser on bespoke structured lending transactions for major banks and private equity funds.

The structured credit group at Milbank is one of the leaders in CLO and Greek securitisation transactions. As well as acting for many of the largest and most active investment managers on European deals, the firm’s busy CLO practice also advises prominent investment banks acting as arrangers. In fact, CLOs account for around 70% of the work of James Warbey‘s team, in which the ‘especially user-friendly‘ Claire Bridcut is a standout practitioner. Although the firm lost John Goldfinch to A&O Shearman, clients note that the team remains ‘very solution-focused and commercial‘.