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NEW YORK, NY 10001
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Marcus Dougherty
Position
Partner and Practice Group Leader, Leveraged Finance Group (US), Co-head of the Milbank’s Global Leveraged Finance Group.
Career
Mr. Dougherty’s practice focuses on representing banks and other financial institutions in senior lending transactions. He has over twenty-five years of experience in representing lenders in acquisition financings, including leveraged buyouts, tender offers and other going private transactions, recapitalizations, bridge and mezzanine financings, and DIP and exit facility financings. He has a broad range of financing experience in both US and international transactions and has been admitted to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong and New York. Recent cross-border financings on which he advised the financing sources include Medline, Signature Aviation, Inmarsat plc, Grifols, S.A., Nouryon (former AkzoNobel specialty chemicals division) and Atotech.
Recognized as a leading lawyer for bank lending and finance in Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Legal 500, Mr. Dougherty has handled major transactions for financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Nomura, CIBC, Barclays Capital, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, HSBC and Royal Bank of Canada. Mr. Dougherty is also distinguished as a Highly Regarded Leading Lawyer in IFLR1000 Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms.
Education
LL.B., UCL Faculty of Laws
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
(Leading lawyers)Milbank‘s global leveraged finance group demonstrates its versatility through its ability to handle syndicated and direct lending options, loan and bond, preferred equity and other capital structures. With a strong lender-side practice, the team is well equipped to handle LBO financings, refinancings, dividend recapitalizations and repricing for credit facilities. The New York-based team is led by Marcus Dougherty who draws on significant experience representing banks, direct lenders and leading financial institutions in acquisition financings. Lauren Hanrahan is highlighted as a key member of the team and has ample experience handling complex lending transactions such as, recapitalizations, mezzanine financings, exit facilities and special situation financings. Charles Stern is a further name to note and is well versed at representing investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, Barclays, HSBC and MUFG. Meir Hornung and Christopher Kwan were promoted to partnership as of January 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Finance > Commercial lending
- Commercial lending United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Cartel