Ms Aparna Sehgal > Dechert LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Aparna Sehgal
Work Department
Commercial Real Estate Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Aparna Sehgal focuses her practice on real estate finance in the UK and continental Europe, and advises on complex real-estate backed transactions, often multi-jurisdictional, highly structured and involving complicated intercreditor issues (senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt/quasi-equity interests). Ms. Sehgal’s clients participate across the capital stack and include financial institutions, alternative capital providers and corporates.
Ms. Sehgal acts on a range of financing matters in connection with real estate, including: loan originations involving complex cross-border structures (including opco-propco arrangements), in connection with the acquisition and/or development of commercial real estate (CRE) or for the acquisition and work-out of distressed and/or non-performing loans (NPLs); the refinancing or restructuring of indebtedness secured on CRE and distressed debt / NPLs secured on real estate; loan-on-loan financings (involving performing and distressed / non-performing underlying assets); and on enforcement strategies (e.g., loan-to-own, consensual / quasi-consensual processes). Ms. Sehgal has advised on transactions in the UK, continental Europe, the Nordics, Russia, South East and East Asia, and the United States.
Ms. Sehgal also advises clients on a range of more general financing matters, such as margin loan and letter of credit (LC) facilities.
Prior to joining Dechert, Ms. Sehgal was a partner in the London office at another global law firm. Over the course of her career, she has undertaken secondments in Washington D.C. and Bangkok with the International Finance Corporation, and in London with CDC Group, Moscow Narodny Bank, and Barclays Capital. She also spent several months working with ANZ Banking Group in London on the disposal of part of their project finance business in Europe, the Middle East and North America to Standard Chartered Bank.
Education
- University of Leeds, LL.B. (Hons)
- University of Cambridge, LL.M.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Property finance
The Dechert LLP global finance team offers a range of commercial real estate finance services, including securitisation, restructuring, and acquisition financing. Practice head Aparna Sehgal is well-versed in the purchase of European commercial real estate secured loans as well as purchasing and repurchasing facilities. John McGrath specialises in handling sophisticated structured financings, such as repo financings and the securitisation of European real estate loans. Richard Pugh acts for lenders and borrowers on various securitisation transactions.
London > Finance > Securitisation
Dechert LLP is ‘very responsive, always going the extra mile to make sure they get the full extent of the answers for their clients‘. Head of structured finance and real estate Aparna Sehgal oversees the London office’s securitisation team, which is active in CMBS, RMBS, CLOs, loan-on-loan deals, repo securitisations and other structures. Aaron Scott, who joined from Paul Hastings LLP in 2023, boosts the firm’s structured credit and CLO practice. He advises CLO managers and arrangers, and recently handled the issuance of €409m in notes for an asset manager. He joins experienced partners John McGrath and Richard Pugh, who act for both banks and buy-side clients.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+