Drawing upon a ‘great diversity of transaction experience across multiple asset classes and throughout the capital structure’, Sidley Austin LLP provides ’super commercial and very responsive’ advice to a borrower-focused client base engaged in new money deals as well as refinancing work for portfolio companies. James Crooks ‘brings a huge amount of market insight and knowledge to every transaction’, ensuring that he is able to ’guide clients deftly through how and where to push on terms’. The practice was recently bolstered by the arrival of Joe Kimberling, as well as new joint practice heads Sam Hamilton and Jay Sadanandan, all of whom joined from Latham & Watkins.
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Témoignages
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- 'It is a great team that is super commercial and very responsive.'
- 'The team has a great diversity of transaction experience across multiple asset classes and throughout the capital structure.'
- 'James Crooks just knows where the market is and can guide clients deftly through how and where to push on terms, while not delaying execution timelines with unreasonable positions.'
- 'James Crooks is a leading finance lawyer; James brings a huge amount of market insight and knowledge to every transaction, with experience working across the capital structure.'
Clients clés
- Preservation Capital Partners
- Patel Family Office
- Omni Partners LLP
- Atento SA
- Swiss Re
- Heather Global PLC
- Lumanity Inc.
- Paulson & Co. Inc.
- Jervois Global Limited
- Travelex Topco Limited
Points forts
- Advised Preservation Capital Partners and its portfolio company Hanseatic Broking Center GmbH with respect to €74m term facilities from credit fund Ares to capitalise the business and support future acquisitions and other strategic initiatives.
- Advised Swiss Reinsurance Company in the second iteration of its stop-loss financing, which involved JP Morgan having made available a $500m senior secured loan facility due 2028 to Matterhorn Re Ltd, a Bermudan special purpose insurer and segregated accounts company affiliated to Swiss Re.
- Advised Cheyne Capital in relation to the upsize of its existing €82m senior secured facilities advanced to Getronics in order to provide further bridge funding to Cheyne taking control of the group through the conversion of its convertible notes instruments.
Avocats
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Responsable de la pratique
Sam Hamilton; Jayanthi Sadanandan
Autres avocats clés
James Crooks; Joseph Kimberling; Fergus O'Domhnaill; Ben Wright; Tania Bedi