Bishoy Eskander > Dechert LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Dechert LLP
25 Cannon Street
EC4M 5UB
England
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Work Department

Global Finance

Position

Counsel

Career

Bishoy Eskander focuses his practice on banking and finance with an emphasis on mid-market multi-jurisdictional acquisition and leveraged finance transactions. Mr. Eskander has broad experience acting for financial institutions, direct lending funds, sponsors and corporate borrowers across a wide range of unitranche, syndicated and club financings, including advising on complex mezzanine and PIK debt structures.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Acquisition finance

The ‘very experienced’ team at Dechert LLP provides ‘commercial’ advice to a fund-focused client base acting both as lenders and borrowers. Consequently, in spite of relatively challenging M&A conditions in 2023, the firm has been relatively well hedged, able as it has been to handle a considerable amount of portfolio work, including in the context of consensual reorganisations. Philip Butler ‘has real presence in the market’, particularly among credit funds providing the financing to sponsors to facilitate M&A in the mid-market. David Miles is also well regarded for his utilisation of alternative debt products including his work at the forefront of the unitranche product. Drawing upon his ‘very technical’ knowledge, Bishoy Eskander is also well-liked by credit funds, who appreciate his ‘deep market insight and how to avoid terms creep to protect the lender’s position’.