The New York-based team at Clifford Chance assists real estate funds, PE sponsors, their portfolio companies and corporate borrowers hailing from myriad sectors with various debt financing arrangements, from PE acquisition and roll-up financing to repricings. Leveraged finance-focused Andrew Young heads the team, joined by Jason Ewart, whose experience spans unitranche deals, preferred equity and holding company PIK financings, private second lien financings and more. Thomas Critchley is a key name for leveraged, acquisition and infrastructure finance, and Daniel Winick‘s focuses include big-ticket acquisition financing. Steven Starr concentrates on subscription credit facilities.
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Key clients

  • AREC Debt Fund
  • Czechoslovak Group
  • Hannon Armstrong
  • Partners Group
  • ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE
  • TPG Angelo Gordon
  • Palladium Equity Partners, LLC

Work highlights

Advised industrial group CSG on the purchase of The Kinetic Group, the outdoor division of Vista Outdoor, for US$2.2 billion.
Advised Hannon Armstrong in connection with an upsize to its US$1.55 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility.
Advised a Partners Group USA, Inc. infrastructure fund as one of several borrowers in connection with a US$1 billion multicurrency umbrella revolving capital call facility provided by Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets PLC.
Practice head

Andrew Young

Other key lawyers

Jason Ewart; Thomas Critchley; Daniel Winick; Gary Brooks; Thomas McGowan; Steven Starr