Proskauer Rose LLP

Private Credit, Finance and Distressed Debt

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.