A&O Shearman

Drawing upon ‘great bench strength’ in London, and also regularly working alongside lawyers throughout the firm’s extensive international network, A&O Shearman provides a ’balanced approach’ for creditors and debtors seeking or deploying capital to fund M&A throughout Europe. As well as providing the funding on strategic acquisitions for financial sponsor clients, the team has also been very active on repricings to take advantage of relatively benign market conditions, as well as on some dividend recapitalisations. Neil Sinha, Robin Harvey and Nick Hallam have been crucial to this work, with all three extremely well-versed at handling transactions utilising financing products throughout the capital structure. On the lender side, the team continues to excel at large-cap syndicated financings for its loyal investment bank client base, as well as handling some work for private credit funds. Shameer Shah is key to the firm’s alternative lending work, as is Denise Gibson, with both also handling some traditional bank-side work as well. Nicholas Clark and Jane Glancy, who co-head the team alongside Harvey and Gibson, both have a balanced lender and borrower offering, with Clark’s work extending to M&A financings for public companies. Other key practitioners include Matt Moore, who excels at advising lenders on leveraged finance and structured growth market transactions; Annette Kurdian, who advises lenders in the crossover of leveraged and infrastructure finance; and Robert Burt, who is skilled at advising creditors on sponsor-backed acquisition finance deals.