The highly rated banking and leveraged finance practice of Milbank LLP continues to be involved in the most significant finance deals across industries, advising traditional investment banking and direct lender clients, as well as receiving designations as lenders counsel from top private equity firms.

Milbank represents underwriters, lenders, private equity sponsors, strategic investors, issuers and borrowers on a broad array of financings, including: first and second lien loans, asset-based lending, bridge loans, secured and unsecured high yield bonds, mezzanine financing and preferred stock issuances, leveraged buyouts, going private transactions and other acquisition financings and leveraged recapitalizations, as well as working capital and letter of credit facilities, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.

In 2022, Milbank’s US leveraged finance team advised on over 153 transactions. In the year prior, Milbank’s US leveraged finance team advised on over 100 financings for LBO transactions alone, totalling over $80 billion in loan proceeds, in addition to other large-scale deals.