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Contact UsRanajoy Basu focuses his practice on structured finance with key experience in debt capital markets transactions. He has a broad range of experience in international capital markets advising a wide range of participants, including arrangers, originators, servicers and trustees, in connection with the securitisation of a wide variety of assets in numerous jurisdictions, including emerging markets transactions. Ranajoy has a particular focus on emerging markets transactions, and is recognised a...
Dorothee Fischer-Appelt is a New York and English-qualified shareholder with 24 years' experience in international capital markets and M&A transactions. She represents companies, financial institutions and selling shareholders in connection with international equity and debt capital markets transactions, including IPOs, secondary equity offerings, structured equity offerings, convertibles, warrants, block trades, high yield offerings, Rule 144A debt offerings, covered bonds, exchange offe...
Christopher Harrison has over 25 years’ experience advising financial institutions, funds and corporate and government entities on complex capital markets and leveraged finance transactions. He is a thorough and skilled practitioner in a variety of industries including media, telecommunications, transportation, energy and financial services.A client-centric approach to capital markets and finance mattersChristopher has vast experience working with investment funds and advising on effect...
DAVID HOWE is a capital markets and finance lawyer in the London office, where he co-heads the Capital Markets group and heads the English law capital markets team.David has extensive experience of acting for arrangers, issuers and trustees on a wide range of transactions, including regulatory and hybrid capital instruments, equity-linked products, high-yield debt offerings, debt restructurings, tender and exchange offers, and other liability management transactions.David has received acknowl...
Michael Kazakevich is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s finance group in London, co-head of the firm’s global practice, and co-chair of the firm’s investment banking industry group. Michael’s practice focuses on corporate finance transactions. He has advised issuers and underwriters in connection with high yield debt issues, secured leveraged loans, initial and follow-on public equity offerings, tender offers and acquisition financing commitments.
Aymen Mahmoud is the co-head of the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group. He focuses his practice on complex debt financing transactions for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, corporate borrowers and issuers and other financial institutions including banks, direct lenders, family offices and other alternative sophisticated capital. His experience includes acting in respect of direct lending, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndi...
Richard (Rick) Mitchell collaborates closely with the Firm’s international Corporate, Finance and Restructuring groups on international capital markets, restructuring and merger and acquisition (M&A) matters. Rick has been involved in dozens of high yield new issues, exchange offers, consent solicitations, restructurings and other transactions in the United States, throughout Europe and around the world. Rick advises issuers, initial purchasers, creditors and investors on trading, c...
VIVIAN A. L. ROOT focuses her practice on the representation of issuers, underwriters, and other transaction parties in a wide variety of SEC-registered and exempt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and secondary equity offerings; transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies and related PIPE transactions; tender and exchange offers and other liability management transactions; bank regulatory capital products; structured and convertible debt produc...
Stephen A. Thierbach is a US-qualified corporate partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. A senior U.S. securities lawyer, he advises issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on complex, innovative and multi-jurisdictional offerings of equity, equity-related and debt securities. He has a broad capital markets transactions practice, with a focus on initial public offerings and secondary offerings, and has represented corporates, investment banks, private equity firms ...
MARK WALSH co-heads Sidley’s Capital Markets group in the EMEA region. He is qualified to practice New York, English and Hong Kong law. He joined the firm in New York in 1986, moved to Hong Kong in 1994 to help establish an office for the firm, and then to London, where he has been resident since 1999.Mark advises public and private sector clients. He has worked with governments and other sovereign and quasi-sovereign clients, as well as with companies from a broad range of industries, ...
Beth Kuhn focuses her practice on capital markets, with particular experience in high yield bonds, sovereign debt, regulatory capital, hybrid issuances, private placements, SEC registered debt, programmes and liability management. Beth has profound experience in the financial industry. She has previously held key roles at Citibank, where she led capital markets negotiation on corporate & sovereign, emerging market and high yield bond issuances, and at BNY Mellon in both London and the Uni...
Sarah Leiper-Jennings is an English qualified solicitor in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Capital Markets practice groups. Ms. Leiper-Jennings advises on a broad range of corporate transactional and advisory matters. She has experience representing public and private companies, private equity funds, banks and other financial institutions on a variety of corporate transactions including public and private merger...

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