USA – NEW YORK Trends and Developments Contributed by: Sheel Patel, Perry Hicks, Linda Boss, Jason Friedman and Ben Snyder Mayer Brown LLP
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Mayer Brown LLP has a global private credit team with over 160 lawyers throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Within the United States, partners are based in Chicago and New York. The team represents a broad range of asset managers in private credit trans - actions through all phases of an investment – from initial acquisition financing to distressed lending and workouts. Mayer Brown is one of the only firms that has a dedicated private credit corporate team providing advice on the equity
components of private credit transactions. Its clients have found this helpful as they increas - ingly turn to preferred equity or equity-linked in - struments to deploy additional capital alongside their debt investments. The firm has been at the forefront of the industry since its inception with team members involved in private credit deals for over 20 years. It has played a pivotal role in shaping the market, advising on some of the earliest and most influential transactions.
Authors
Sheel Patel is head of New York private credit at Mayer Brown and has over 15 years of experience working on complex commercial financing transactions. He represents
Perry Hicks serves Mayer Brown’s clients on private investment fund transactions. He advises many leading global financial institutions on secured fund financings, including NAV,
private credit lenders on cutting-edge leveraged financing transactions, asset-based financing transactions, mezzanine lending, preferred equity investments, event-driven and opportunistic financing transactions, as well as special situations, workouts, restructurings, and insolvency matters. He leads high-profile leveraged finance matters for top credit funds and represents capital solutions/special situations-oriented direct lenders in mission- critical lending transactions. Sheel is also a leading commentator on private credit and special situations topics, having been quoted in publications such as Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Reuters.
hybrid and subscription facilities to hedge funds, funds of funds, and private equity debtors. Perry helps clients identify and efficiently address the complexities that are present in fund-related financings and other complex cross-border transactions.
Linda Boss advises financial institutions, fund sponsors and borrowers on a wide variety of structured finance and trade finance transactions. Mayer Brown clients rely on Linda to
provide creative solutions to complex transactions, including those with cross-border and cross-currency features, credit insurance support and off-balance-sheet treatment.
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