Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

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Adam Blakemore is a Tax partner in Cadwalader’s London office. He advises on the taxation aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border corporate and financing transactions. He has advised on a wide range of financing transactions, including securitisations, hybrid capital issuances, repackagings, credit linked instruments, stock lending arrangements and a variety of financial products. Adam’s practice includes acting on restructurings in solvent and distressed debt situations, corporate reorganisations and reconstructions. He has a particular interest in the structuring and restructuring of investment funds, asset management entities and private equity financings. He also provides advice on corporate acquisitions, demergers and joint ventures, both within the UK and internationally, and provides counsel on disputes and litigation with revenue authorities, representing clients before the Appeal Courts. Adam is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Alexander Collins

Alex Collins is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. Alex focuses on structured finance, with an emphasis on CLOs. He has acted on a wide range of cross-border structured finance transactions and in respect of CLOs, has represented arrangers, asset managers and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and warehouse facilities. Alex has been working on CLO transactions since the resurgence of the European CLO market a number of years ago and has advised on numerous public CLO transactions, warehouses and related transactions such as the establishment of originator retention structures and retention financings. Alex is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Alix Prentice

Alix Prentice is a partner in Cadwalader's Financial Services Group. She specializes in advising financial institutions and investors on the UK's financial services regulatory regime. Alix has over 20 years of experience (some gained at the regulator) of advising on regulatory requirements and relationships with regulators across a range of industries and asset classes, including family offices and private investors, hedge and other alternative fund managers, private equity, banks, broker-dealers, custodians, distributors, issuers and cryptocurrency businesses. Alix has particular expertise in alternative investment funds and the documentation of investments into these vehicles. She also has significant experience of regulated mergers and acquisitions, often involving complex changes of control and due diligence exercises.

Assia Damianova

Assia Damianova is special counsel in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader’s London office. Her practice focuses on complex financing transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes. Assia has extensive experience with derivative products (including credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps, equity derivatives, structured repos and other derivative instruments) and securitisation transactions, and related regulatory issues. In addition, she advises buy-side clients on a wide range of trading, compliance and portfolio management issues. Assia is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Bevis Metcalfe

Bevis Metcalfe is a partner in Cadwalader’s Financial Restructuring Group and Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group based in London. Bevis is a well-known practitioner in the London finance and restructuring markets with a practice spanning all aspects of corporate credit, restructurings, complex cross-border insolvencies, and distressed M&A. Bevis has particular experience in infrastructure financings across a broad range of asset classes and jurisdictions.

Catherine Richardson

Catherine Richardson is a special counsel in the Tax Group in Cadwalader's London office. She advises clients on all aspects of UK and international tax (both direct tax and indirect tax) and has experience of advising on a variety of different types of corporate M&A transactions, international capital markets transactions and general banking and finance matters. Catherine is admitted to practice in England and Wales and Queensland, Australia.

Claire Puddicombe

Claire Puddicombe is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group, resident in the firm’s London office. Her practice is concentrated on securitisation, with particular focus on CLOs. Claire represents banks, arrangers, collateral managers and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and loan warehouse facilities, including advising MUFG Securities (as placement agent) in respect of the NIBC-managed €400 million North Westerly VI European cash flow CLO transaction, the first CLO to consider ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors across all its investments. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Daniel Tobias

Daniel Tobias is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group in London. Daniel specialises in securitisation, with a focus on CLOs. Daniel has represented arrangers, collateral managers and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and loan warehouse facilities. Daniel has been working on CLO transactions since the resurgence of the European CLO market several years ago. He has advised on numerous CLOs, including those with complex originator retention structures.

David Quirolo

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David Quirolo is a partner in Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Group, resident in the London office. Focusing his practice primarily on CLOs, securitisation, asset finance and repackaging transactions involving various asset types in the United States and Europe, he represents banks, arrangers and asset managers in a variety of structured finance transactions. David has extensive experience using “cash flow,” “market value,” and hybrid structures, and is recognised as a leading practitioner in the CLO 2.0 market. David also represents the Loan Market Association in relation to regulation affecting the CLO market. He regularly meets with regulators and policy makers in relation to securitisation regulation. David is admitted to practice in England and Wales, in the State of New York and in Ireland.

Duncan Hubbard

Duncan Hubbard is a partner and leading international real estate finance lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the sector. His clients include global funds, financial institutions and investors. Duncan has acted on some of the largest UK and international property finance transactions, from single assets, such as The Gherkin in London, to cross-jurisdictional funds with investment and development portfolios across the world, ranging from logistics in Korea to health care in London. He also advises financial institutions on regulatory compliance issues concerning CRD4 and is a special advisor to the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (VDP). He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Gregory Petrick

Gregory M. Petrick, chair of Cadwalader's Financial Restructuring Group and Managing Partner of the London office, has represented debtors, official unsecured creditors’ committees, secured lenders, state regulators, and trustees in complex business reorganizations. His practice encompasses counseling secured and unsecured lenders, creditor committees, public bondholders, debtors, shareholders, and investors involved in many of the largest and most complex U.S. and international reorganizations and restructurings, financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. Greg has played a major role in the restructuring, reorganization, sale, or acquisition of businesses in the life insurance, financial services, telecommunications, energy, real estate, shipping, and hospitality industries. He has also led cross-border restructurings across Europe, Indonesia and Australia. Greg is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. He is also a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.

Jason Schwartz

Tax partner and co-head of the Firm’s Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice. Mr. Schwartz specializes in tax issues relating to crypto, financial products, funds, treaties, lending, and securitizations. He is the author of numerous tax articles, including a recent publication on the taxation of DeFi, and a Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Portfolio on the taxation of CLOs. He oversees a pro bono program that incorporates and obtains tax-exempt status for nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit DAOs.

Joanna Valentine

Joanna Valentine is partner in the Corporate Group at Cadwalader. Her practice involves advising domestic and international clients in a broad range of complex corporate transactions across diverse sectors. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions, including private equity transactions of all types, acquisitions and divestitures, majority, minority and consortium investments, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, as well as other corporate finance transactions and corporate governance advice. Joanna also advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including mergers, acquisitions, investments and financings, as well as restructurings. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales and New York.

Kevin Roberts

Kevin Roberts is a partner in Cadwalader’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group, resident in the London office. Specialising in regulatory compliance and investigations and white collar crime, Kevin’s practice ranges from regulatory matters dealt with by the Financial Conduct Authority, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and the Health and Safety Executive, to prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office. Kevin advises corporations and individuals on money laundering compliance and investigations; anti-corruption and regulatory compliance; asset-tracing and recovery; tax investigations; and fraud. As part of his global practice, Kevin advises clients on mutual assistance requests and extradition. He also counsels them on Parliamentary Select Committee appearances. Kevin is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Matthew Duncan

Matthew Duncan is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London Office. He advises a wide range of institutions and other entities that operate, invest in or deal with businesses that provide financial services and products to the consumer, financial, commercial and public sectors in the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions (including banks, lenders, credit funds, insurers, reinsurers, pension funds, alternative investment funds, investment managers, finance arrangers and fintechs). Matthew has played a significant role in many landmark, innovative “first of kind” transactions that have been widely followed by many issuers, including the first UK single-issuer, segregated, multi-issuance, residential mortgage-backed securities program. He has been involved with UK covered bonds since the first transaction in 2003 (prior to there being a legislative framework for such transactions in place). He has also played a leading role in advising fintech businesses and working on innovative fintech structured financings, especially involving the tokenization of assets and the use of smart contracts (typically using distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain) and artificial intelligence (AI), and he often speaks at conferences in this field. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith is a partner in Cadwalader’s Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group in London. Matthew advises private equity sponsors, private credit funds, banks and corporate borrowers on leveraged and general finance transactions across a range of sectors. Matthew is widely recognised as a leading individual for private credit and direct lending transactions.

Nick Shiren

Nick Shiren is a partner in the Capital Markets Group, resident in the London office. His practice focuses on a broad range of capital markets and financing transactions, with a focus on structured finance. In particular, Nick has extensive experience in derivative products (including credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps, repos and other derivative instruments), structured credit transactions (including collateralised loan obligations) and securitisation transactions (including securitisations of residential and commercial mortgages and consumer assets). He represents leading investment banks, arrangers, issuers and collateral managers in transactions throughout Europe and the United States. Nick is admitted to practice in England and Wales and the State of New York.

Richard Nevins

Richard Nevins, a Senior Counsel, practices in Cadwalader's Financial Restructuring Group. He focuses on complex financial restructurings, special situation and high yield financings and refinancings, and public and private company M&A transactions (in both solvent and distressed contexts). Richard has represented creditors, debtors and other stakeholders in closing restructurings and other transactions worldwide, involving corporates in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Ukraine, the Netherlands and Russia. Richard is very experienced in the issuance and restructuring of New York law high yield bonds, the application and interpretation of the U.S. Federal securities laws and Delaware corporate law, and the implementation of financial restructurings through both U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings and U.K. schemes of arrangement. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and is a registered foreign lawyer in England and Wales.

Robert Cannon

Robert Cannon is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. He focuses on structured finance and securitisation, and has acted for arrangers, originators and asset managers on transactions involving a variety of structures and asset classes, including CDOs, CLOs, mortgage securitisations and commercial paper conduits. Robert is admitted to practice in England and Wales and in Ireland.

Sabah Nawaz

Sabah Nawaz is a special counsel in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. Sabah focuses on advising banks, private equity funds, pension funds, corporate borrowers and rating agencies on a wide range of complex cross-border structured finance, securitisation, debt capital markets, refinancing and restructuring transactions. Sabah is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Simon Walsh

Simon Walsh is special counsel in Cadwalader’s Global Litigation Group. He focuses on high value international commercial arbitration and complex cross-border litigation and has acted for clients in the telecom, private equity, financial, maritime, offshore, power and aviation sectors. Simon has acted on some of the world’s largest international arbitration disputes in the telecoms sector. He has represented both claimants and defendants in the English high court and in arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, AAA, UNCITRAL, ICSID, SIAC, LMAA and VIAC rules. Simon also has extensive experience of managing multi-jurisdictional litigation in the offshore courts in Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands as well as in Europe and Russia. Simon’s experience extends to restructuring and insolvency matters, and to regulatory and civil/criminal investigations under the U.K. Bribery Act and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Simon also has detailed knowledge of the enforcement and annulment of international arbitral awards and judgments. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Smridhi Gulati

Smridhi Gulati is a partner in Cadwalader’s Leveraged Finance & Private Credit Group. She advises UK and international lenders, including private credit funds, banks and other financial institutions, as well as private equity sponsors and corporates on complex lending through the capital structure primarily in relation to UK and cross-border acquisition finance transactions including private equity backed buyouts, management buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and refinancing and restructurings of leveraged assets.

Stephen Day

Stephen Day is a partner in the Capital Markets Group, resident in the London office. Stephen advises leading financial institutions and corporations in Europe and the United States in connection with a wide range of structured finance and securitisation transactions, with a focus on complex cross border deals. His work in this area includes structuring commercial paper conduits, structured investment vehicles, multi-country receivables (trade, auto loan/lease, credit card) securitisations, securitisation bridge and private equity take-out deals, whole business transactions and intellectual property financings. Stephen has structured some of the most innovative international financings in the market, including a music publishing royalty securitisation for one of the world’s leading labels, Turkish diversified payment rights securitisations, fleet and equipment leasing securitisations across Europe together with speciality finance, future flow and marketplace lending transactions. Stephen is admitted to practice in New York, and in England and Wales.

Suzanne Bell

Suzanne Bell is a partner in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader's London office. Suzanne has advised leading financial institutions and corporations in connection with a wide range of domestic, European and International structured finance and capital markets transactions. Her experience includes structuring and documenting commercial paper conduits, structured investment vehicles, and public and private securitisations of a range of asset classes, with particular focus on credit card receivables, auto loans and leases and trade receivables. Suzanne also has experience in advising a range of stakeholders (including receivers, directors and creditors) on debt restructurings and insolvency matters involving structured finance borrowers. Suzanne is admitted to practice in England and Wales and in Ireland.

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