Alyssa Caples
Alyssa K. Caples is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department, focusing on international corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions
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Chris Medley
Chris advises bank and fund clients on cross-border debt financings, refinancings and restructurings. He has a particular focus on sponsor-backed leveraged acquisition finance and routinely works on the largest and most complex sponsor-backed financing structures in the European leverage finance market, including term loan B financings, bank and bond structures, unitranche financings and post-IPO financings.
Chris frequently works with, and is well known to, leading underwriting banks on underwritten term loan B financings and is likewise well known to direct lenders on unitranche financings.
Chris was previously seconded to the leveraged finance and high-yield teams of JP Morgan and Citibank, which gives him a deep understanding of the internal workings of origination, credit and execution teams, allowing him to provide practical and tailored advice to bank, fund and sponsor clients. He also spent two years on secondment to the firm’s Madrid office and speaks Spanish.
George Stephanakis
George A. Stephanakis is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Co-Head of the Firm’s Capital Markets practice for EMEA. His practice focuses on capital market transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
Jackson Lam
Jackson Lam focuses his practice on complex cross‑border leveraged transactions, syndicated lending and alternative and subordinated financing products. Mr. Lam has extensive experience advising financial institutions, private equity sponsors, credit funds and other alternative capital providers on acquisition financing transactions.
Korey Fevzi
Korey Fevzi is a partner in Cravath's Corporate Department. Mr. Fevzi advises investment banks, private credit funds, commercial banks, subordinated finance providers, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on their complex European leveraged and acquisition financings, with a particular emphasis on cross-border financings.
Lawrence Verhelst
Lawrence J. Verhelst serves as European counsel in Cravath's Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on representing corporate and sovereign issuers and financial institutions in U.S. and international finance and capital markets transactions, including high‑yield and investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings and liability management. Mr. Verhelst also advises clients in cross‑border mergers and acquisitions, as well as public disclosure, corporate governance and other general corporate matters.
Margaret Rallings
Margaret R. M. Rallings serves as European counsel in Cravath’s Corporate Department. Her practice focuses on capital markets transactions, including cross-border high-yield debt and equity offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.
Nicoleta Lupea
Nicoleta D. Lupea focuses her practice primarily on advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and general corporate matters. Ms. Lupea also dedicates a significant portion of her practice to providing commercial and strategic advice to early‑stage and growth companies as well as investors in such companies.
Philip Stopford
Philip Stopford is a partner in Cravath's Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on leveraged finance, acquisition finance, corporate finance and restructuring transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border financings.
Philip Boeckman
Philip J. Boeckman is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Managing Partner of the Firm’s London office and Co-Head of the Capital Markets Practice for EMEA. His general corporate practice covers capital markets, including IPOs, rights issuances and other equity offerings, U.S. listings and high‑yield bridge, bond and other leveraged financings, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Roberto Bruno
Roberto Bruno focuses his practice on cross‑border, sophisticated and high‑profile debt (including high‑yield) and equity capital markets transactions, whether SEC‑registered or unregistered, across a broad range of industries. Mr. Bruno also has significant experience with cross‑border public and private merger and acquisition transactions as well as private equity transactions. In addition, he provides clients with tailored and strategic U.S. law advice on a broad range of legal issues, including available alternative structures for potential securities and M&A transactions, compliance with U.S. reporting obligations and the U.S. tender offer rules. Mr. Bruno works for a diverse client base on matters in Europe (primarily Italy), the United States and emerging markets.
Rohan Saha
Rohan has a wide range of experience advising banks and credit funds across the credit spectrum on a number of products with primary focus on financial sponsor backed cross-border debt financings. He has worked on various financing structures and products, and is particularly well versed with incurrence based term loan B financings, unitranche / direct lending structures, super-senior revolving credit facilities, bank/bond structures and junior/subordinated credit products. He has advised creditors on some of the largest and most complex European leveraged finance transactions in the past few years.
Rohan was seconded to the leveraged finance team at Credit Suisse in 2018 and is able to use the experience gained on the secondment to provide practical and tailored advice to bank and fund clients.
Rohan is one of the diversity and inclusion champions in the banking department in London and is focused on promoting under-represented diverse talent within the firm.
Rohan joined Linklaters in 2011 and joined the banking team in 2013.
Virginie Marier
Virginie Marier focuses her practice on capital markets transactions, including cross‑border high‑yield debt and equity offerings, securitizations and mergers and acquisitions.