Faisal Ramzan > Proskauer Rose LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Proskauer Rose LLP Offices
8 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2N 4BQ
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Faisal Ramzan
Work Department
Private Credit, Finance and Distressed Debt
Position
Faisal Ramzan is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit, Finance and Distressed Debt Groups.
Faisal’s practice focuses on complex cross-border and domestic finance transactions and credit arrangements, particularly those financings that involve private sources of capital. He structures and negotiates a wide range of financing facilities such as:
• senior secured financings
• mezzanine debt
• second-lien loans
• bifurcated and stretched senior unitranche facilities
• holdco loans
• other innovative, first-in-kind structures
Faisal represents a broad array of lenders and investors, including private debt funds, alternative lenders, mezzanine funds, second lien lenders, hedge funds and specialty finance companies, often in the context of leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings and restructurings.
Faisal has extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues, secured creditor and debt restructurings and he regularly negotiates intercreditor and subordination agreements, agreements among lenders and other complex interlender agreements.
Faisal has written debt finance articles for various publications and is a frequent contributor to industry and legal articles on European debt finance as well as a regular speaker at industry conferences.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Acquisition finance
Focused almost entirely on private credit fund-related work, the ‘highly experienced and commercial’ team at Proskauer Rose LLP has developed a market-leading offering for very active funds, including Ares and Alcentra, which are appreciative of its ‘ability to know when to push and when not to push depending on deal dynamics and the counterparties involved’. Although mid-market financings remain the cornerstone of the practice, it has successfully followed its clients, some of which are writing increasingly bigger cheques to facilitate M&A extending into the upper-mid-market and beyond. This was recently exemplified by the ‘attentive and commercial’ Alexander Griffith‘s and Harriet West ‘s advice to Ares on the financing for the “take-private” acquisition by Epiris and Astorg of Euromoney Institutional Investor plc. Faisal Ramzan co-heads the team alongside Griffith and is noted for his expertise at handling complex domestic and cross-border transactions, often involving multiple tranches of debt. Daniel Hendon is also recommended. Ben Davis joined Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP in July 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+