Melinda Perera

Drawing upon insightful local law and business expertise, as well as deep international best practice standards, Linklaters is a popular choice among banks, funds and corporates seeking to raise or provide finance for a myriad of purposes, including general corporate lending, acquisition finance and project finance. Much of this work is of a cross-border nature, with clients benefiting from a collaborative approach combining local structuring expertise from Luxembourg with the experience of lawyers based in other key financial centres, including London. Team head Melinda Perera exemplifies the eclectic nature of the work handled by the office, being as comfortable handling complex debt capital markets (DCM) and securitisation transactions as she is advising lenders, including private credit funds, on acquisition finance mandates. The 'responsive and knowledgeable' Patrick Geortay has a similarly broad practice that not only encompasses banking and DCM transactions but also financial services regulatory issues. Office managing partner Nicki Kayser is also a key member of the team particularly for DCM mandates, including the issuance of digital bonds, as is Eliane Dejardin Botelho, who provides the underlying regulatory input across an array of transactions in the space, including in the context of banking and insurance consolidation.