Partner and Practice Group Leader, Leveraged Finance Group (US), Co-head of the Milbank's Global Leveraged Finance Group.

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.

LL.B., UCL Faculty of Laws