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Shearman & Sterling LLP Offices

Shearman & Sterling LLP
9 APPOLD STREET
LONDON
EC2A 2AP
England
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Sanjeev Dhuna

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+44 20 7655 5115 sanjeev.dhuna@shearman.com

Work Department

Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Sanjeev is the Global Bank Finance Practice Group Leader and a member of the Executive Group based in London.

Sanjeev has been active in the London Leveraged Finance market for three decades. He regularly works with top tier lenders, sponsors and credit funds on large-cap leveraged buyouts, and also acts for funds specialising in special situations and hybrid financings. He has also advised on a broad range of ground breaking and precedent setting TLB financings, including cross-border direct lending transactions from unitranche up to more complex PIK, first and second lien and Holdco PIK structures. He is dual qualified in both English law and New York law.

Sanjeev has been recognised as:

  • Ranking in “Band 6” in UK: Banking & Finance for Chambers Europe 2023. They note that “Sanjeev has outstanding people skills and commercial acumen.”
  • Ranking in “Band 6” in London: Banking & Finance: Big-Ticket for Chambers UK 2023. They note that “He is great at leveraging the team and marshalling the banks to get a deal done in a collaborative way.”
  • Sanjeev is ranked as “Band 2” for Banking & Finance: Expertise based Abroad in India for Chambers UK 2022.

Memberships

Admissions

England and Wales

New York

Education

University of Southampton, LL.B.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans

Although it has been weakened by a number of recent high-profile departures, including Korey Fevzi and Philip Stopford to Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in March 2023, Shearman & Sterling LLP still handles some syndicated lender work for investment grade corporates requiring loan and high yield bond financings. Sanjeev Dhuna heads the London finance group, although his focus remains primarily on leveraged finance mandates.

London > Finance > Acquisition finance

In something of a state of flux following a number of high-profile departures, most notable of which was Korey Fevzi‘s exit to Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in March 2023, Shearman & Sterling LLP‘s London office still maintains strong lender-side relationships and is well-positioned to advise on mid-to-upper-mid-market transactions in the leveraged finance field using financial products throughout the capital structure. As well as advising the firm’s core base of banking clients, the team also continues to grow its credit fund offering, with team head Sanjeev Dhuna particularly prominent in the sector. The ‘very credible’ Shameer Shah is also a key member of the team and ‘is able to articulate complex legal jargon in simple English’, particularly in the context of direct lending transactions.

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