Banking, capital markets.

Cecil is a London-based US partner who is the leader of the firm’s global US securities and corporate practice. He works on a broad spectrum of securities and finance matters, with a special emphasis on cross-border offerings of high-yield and other covenant-intensive debt securities, and has wide expertise in offerings of debt, equity, regulatory capital and structured securities in established and emerging markets, as well as in liability management transactions and restructurings. Cecil speaks regularly at a variety of professional conferences, is an officer of the Securities Law Committee of the International Bar Association, chairing its Underwriting and Distribution Subcommittee, and sits on the Advisory Committee for Securities Regulation in Europe of the Practising Law Institute.

Harvard (1985 AB); University of Virginia (1988 JD).