Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Working alone as well as often alongside practitioners in key firmwide international offices, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's fluid partner-led London banking and finance offering, which is overseen by Edward Aldred and Jim Ho, is well-positioned to advise its borrower-focused client base across a variety of financing transactions. Work ranges from syndicated lending to high-yield financing, and from pre-export financing to recapitalisations. Many of the borrowers are investment-grade quality, including a number of sovereign governments, with the team increasingly active in relation to sustainability-linked financings. Reflective of the firm's generalist ethos, Polina Lyadnova is well-versed at handling both new money and distressed/restructuring matters, where she draws upon deep knowledge of debt products throughout the capital structure, particularly for emerging markets matters.