Macfarlanes LLP

Immersed in the private capital milieu, Macfarlanes LLP has excellent traction among credit funds as lenders and financial sponsors as borrowers, engaged in transactions within the mid to upper-mid-market leveraged finance space, in particular. ‘Very experienced’ team head Andrew Perkins has longstanding expertise advising on alternative credit, adding value to clients on both the deployment of capital for M&A transactions and refinancings, as well as in the context of raising debt for the funds themselves. The ’responsive and solutions-focused’ Adam Caines, who was recently promoted partner, regularly supports Perkins on major mandates as well as successfully having cultivated his own impressive client base. On the borrower front, Kirstie Hutchinson has an outstanding reputation advising corporates across a range of debt financing matters, as well as regularly being engaged by private equity sponsors on LBO work and on refinancings/repricings. Malcolm Hitching also handles some sponsor-led work, as well as having niche expertise advising private credit funders in the litigation finance market.