Milbank

The firm: For over 150 years, Milbank has provided innovative legal solutions advising on the largest, complex, ‘first-ever’ corporate transactions and disputes. Milbank’s clients are prominent multinational financial, industrial and commercial enterprises, governments, institutions and individuals. Milbank is a global firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC in the US

Types of work undertaken
Capital markets/securities: Representing sellers, purchasers and financial intermediaries in international debt/equity offerings, derivatives/synthetic products, public utility financings, financial institution financings, project financings in capital markets and domestic and foreign government financings, Milbank advises on some of the largest and most complex deals globally.

Corporate/M&A/private equity: Milbank counsels clients on negotiated and hostile transactions in mergers and consolidations, stock/asset acquisitions and dispositions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, proxy contests/tender offers, leveraged/management buyouts, restructurings/bankruptcy reorganizations and corporate governance and executive compensation matters. The firm represents participants in private equity investing, structuring, negotiating, executing and financing private equity, ‘going-private’, recapitalizations and exit transactions. A key component of the firm’s M&A practice is its broad understanding of the corporate governance aspects of transactions. Milbank’s M&A corporate and litigation teams effectively counsel boards of directors in difficult and sensitive situations, with particular expertise providing defense advice to public companies.

Executive compensation and benefits: Milbank advises on corporate transactions and financial restructurings, including advising the boards of directors and compensation committees on the design and implementation of compensation and change-in-control programs.

Financial restructuring: Milbank is known for prominent corporate restructurings and groundbreaking chapter 11 cases. The firm is at the forefront of most of the largest, most complex corporate restructuring matters in the world, and this group’s representations have earned it numerous industry awards. The key to the firm’s long-standing success is its unique ability to advise companies, creditors’ committees, financial institutions, funds and trustees in domestic and cross-border restructurings while providing perspective from all aspects of a case.

Gaming and hospitality: Milbank has represented the world’s most well-known names in gaming and hospitality, private equity, restructuring, bankruptcy, private/public financings, joint ventures and long-term management deals. The firm represents lenders, bondholders, opportunity funds, private equity funds, management companies, institutional investors and owners of hotel, resort and gaming properties.

Global leveraged finance: Clients from around the world come to Milbank for advice on their most significant financing transactions. Advising financial institutions, direct lenders, companies and private equity clients on leveraged finance transactions, including senior secured loans (both syndicated term loan Bs and direct lender unitranche facilities), asset based loans, subordinated/mezzanine debt transactions, bridge financings and high yield bond offerings, Milbank has experience structuring complex debt instruments used in multi-jurisdictional transactions, including financings for cross-border acquisitions and multi-currency credit facilities..

Latin America: Milbank has extensive experience in project financings, capital markets, privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, debt-for-equity conversions, corporate and public sector restructurings and banking and financial services across every industry and region in Latin America.

Litigation and arbitration: Milbank’s litigators serve as lead counsel in some of the largest, most high-profile disputes in the world. The firm represents clients in multi-jurisdiction securities litigations, white-collar/regulatory investigations and complex disputes involving intellectual property, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and commercial litigation. Cases involve federal securities laws, patent infringement, corporate control contests, accounting fraud and financial restructurings. Unrivalled in mutual fund class action and derivative litigation, the team has been involved in more 1940 Act cases than any other law firm in the US.

Project, energy and infrastructure finance: Recognized by the market globally as a leading firm in the area of PEIF, Milbank represents leading players, such as debt and equity investors, private sponsors and government lenders, in the financing and development of the world’s most critical and pioneering infrastructure projects. In the past three years, the group has acted as legal advisor in hundreds of energy and infrastructure-related matters worldwide and raised billions of dollars of capital for a wide variety of transactions, including power (renewable and conventional), oil/gas, energy, transportation (roads, airports, subways, ports) and other infrastructure projects.

Real estate: Milbank’s real estate group advises leading financial institutions, investment banks, private equity funds, hedge funds, pension funds, REITS and sovereign wealth funds. The group has extensive experience with complex deals including structuring, negotiating and closing all varieties of equity and debt transactions.

Structured credit: Milbank represents both lenders and borrowers in debt financings involving distressed credits, asset-based loans secured by illiquid pools of collateral and loans to private investment funds secured by specified investments and/or capital commitments. Year after year, the firm is consistently recognized as the leading CLO manager counsel by prominent ranking publications.

Structured finance and securitizations: Milbank advises on an array of non-traditional financial investments, products and strategies: specialty finance (including distressed and special situations investment), structured finance, derivatives/commodities, credit arbitrage, fund formation and institutional finance/private placements.

Tax: Milbank’s tax lawyers are leaders in developing innovative financial products and arrangements for corporations raising and investing funds in the international capital markets and structures for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and both majority and minority equity investments.

Technology and outsourcing: A leader in information technology and outsourcing transactions, Milbank has advised in more than 600 transactions in over 90 countries, with a combined deal value exceeding $150bn.

Transportation and space: Milbank is a premier provider of legal services to the aviation industry worldwide, having innovated many of the structures and techniques that have become standard-bearers. Our lawyers frequently handle the largest and most innovative transactions in the field,  including acquisition and warehouse financings, secured portfolio financings, ABS, loyalty program financings, private placements, structured financings, AFIC financings and ECA financings, aviation mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, joint ventures, MBOs and aircraft portfolio acquisitions and disposals. The firm is a global leader in aviation capital markets transactions and has been involved in virtually every US and international EETC offering. The team also has significant experience in the restructuring of aircraft leases and financings in bankruptcy.

Trusts, estates and exempt organizations: Milbank serves prominent individuals and institutions in estate planning, trust and estate administration and litigation, and charitable giving. This group advises institutional fiduciaries and exempt organizations.