Ashley Young > Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP Offices
CITYPOINT
1 ROPEMAKER STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 9AW
England
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Ashley Young
Work Department
Finance
Position
Ashley Young is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the European Finance Department. He has approximately 20 years of experience advising clients on complex cross-border financing transactions. His practice focuses on acting for sponsors and borrowers, including private equity funds and their portfolio companies as well as credit funds at all levels of the capital structure on UK and international acquisitions, leveraged financings, restructurings and special situations transactions. In recent years Ashley has also handled multiple performing and non-performing loan acquisitions and the financings of those transactions.
Education
Nottingham Law School, LPC, 1999′ Robinson College, University of Cambridge, M.A., 1998; Hong Kong Law Society Overseas Lawyer Qualification, 2011
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Acquisition finance
Often working closely with its strong London and Paris private equity groups, the partner-led team at Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP
delivers ‘outstanding results’ for funds on mid-market European leveraged finance matters, as well as in the context of stressed/special situations-related work. Team head Ashley Young has recently handled a number of take-private mandates for sponsor clients and while he is far better known for his borrower expertise, he also handles a small amount of direct lending work for key funds clients. Daniel Gendron is also a key member of the team whose fund-based workflow includes new money mandates, refinancing work for portfolio companies and special situations mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Finance > High yield
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium