Baker McKenzie LLP provides a versatile offering to lenders and a growing roster of corporates across the full scope of debt finance products, including those governed under New York and UK law, which ensures it is well positioned to handle big-ticket syndicated corporate lending work and event-driven financings. Nick O’Grady regularly advises large banking syndicates on cross-border acquisition finance and corporate lending transactions and excels in structuring deals in a manner which melds both English and New York law style covenants and documentation. The team also handles emerging markets work, including within Africa, with Luka Lightfoot particularly skilled at advising banks and export credit agencies on providing financing to corporate borrowers and sovereigns across an array of trade and project finance mandates. Former team head Nick Tostivin departed for Pinsent Masons LLP in March 2024.

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Key clients

  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • BNP Paribas
  • HSBC Bank PLC
  • Barclays Bank PLC
  • ING Bank
  • Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
  • MUFG Bank Ltd.
  • SMBC
  • Investec
  • Afreximbank
  • Deutsche Bank

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nick O'Grady, Ben Wilkinson, Matthew Cox

Other key lawyers

Sebastien Marcelin-Rice, Luka Lightfoot, Oliver Jefferies