Private Capital Finance
Advising on financings for private capital managers and their funds
Clients turn to our full-service Finance practice for legal advice across a broad range of international and domestic financing arrangements, including first-of-their-kind innovative financing structures.
We are recognised market leaders in alternative credit – trusted for executing complex, cross-border private capital financings. Our multidisciplinary team works with private capital managers including credit funds, private equity and venture capital firms, family offices, high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors throughout the financing lifecycle.
Whether raising, deploying or restructuring capital, clients value us not just for our legal expertise but also our strategic insight in understanding the commercial goals driving each transaction.
Our team spans leveraged finance, corporate lending, private equity transactions, fund finance, real estate finance, restructuring and insolvency, special situations, structured finance and litigation and legal assets funding.
Whether acting for lenders, borrowers, or sponsors, we support our clients to structure and execute sophisticated capital financing strategies, including asset-based lending, NAV financing and credit secondaries. Our work is multi-jurisdictional and we help clients to navigate complex international challenges with the support of specialists across our offering.
Work highlights include advising:
- Ares Management on financing to Lovell Minnick Partners for the merger of wealth management company Waverton Investment Management with London & Capital;
- Five Arrows and other senior lenders on the acquisition of Exemplar Health Care by Agilitas Private Equity;
- Partners Group in relation to various investor call bridge facilities for their funds;
- 17Capital on the closing of 17Capital Strategic Lending Fund 6, which has successfully held a final closing at $5.5bn including co-investment and affiliated entities;
- Independent Builders Merchant Group on its restructuring plan in conjunction with a take-control transaction by Ares and Farallon;
- Quilam Capital on the establishment of a strategic joint venture with J.P. Morgan;
- Canadian investment firm Brookfield on securing £300m in financing for the expansion of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus; and
- Crestline in connection with their financing of the 2Excel group, a leading aerospace engineering company and special mission operator in the UK.
