McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP
While it is primarily aligned to servicing its private credit clients as lenders and borrowers on leveraged finance matters, McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP‘s ’deep industry insights’ across a wide range of finance products, including as it relates to TLB, revenue-based lending, direct lending and special situations work, ensures that has the flexibility and overarching financing capability to also advise on more general new money and distressed work. Team head Aymen Mahmoud is ‘highly commercial and understands client needs’.
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Testimonials
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- 'Hands-on, knowledgeable, deep industry insights and very responsive.'
- 'They have an ability to think proactively on difficult situations to protect their clients.'
- 'The very responsive Aymen Mahmoud is hands-on, knowledgeable and has deep industry insights.'
- 'Aymen Mahmoud is highly commercial and understands client needs.'
- 'Mark Fine is very intelligent and commercially savvy.'
Key clients
- Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
- Aksiom Services Group
- Alcentra Limited
- Alter Domus
- Aquiline Capital Partners
- Ares Management Limited
- bd-capital
- Blue Owl (formerly Owl Rock)
- Blue Water Private Equity LLP
- Cairn Capital
- Caura Ltd
- ClearCourse
- CoachHub GmbH
- CVC Credit
- Excellence Logging Limited
- Five Arrows Growth Capital
- FQX
- GLAS Specialist Services Limited
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Golub Capital LLC
- Guggenheim Partners Limited
- HPS Investment Partners
- Intriva Capital
- Laboratoire X.O.
- Mercuria Energy Trading Pte Ltd
- MessageBird B.V.
- Odyssey Europe Holdco S.à r.l. (holding company of Olympic Entertainment Group)
- OpenGate Capital Management Europe Sarl (and its portfolio companies Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems and EverZinc)
- Orbus Group
- Palamon Capital Partners (and portfolio company FairConnect)
- Parent Cloud Limited
- Partners Group
- Pemberton Capital Advisors LLP
- Perwyn Advisors UK Limited
- PX Group
- QMetric Group Limited
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Sanne
- SilverTree Equity Partners LLP
- Sirius Petroleum PLC
- Sona Asset Management
- Synova Capital (and portfolio insurance brokerage business JMG Group)
- Treo Asset Management LLC (previously known as BRG Asset Management)
- Weight Capital Partners
Work highlights
- Advised Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Guggenheim Partners Limited as lenders in connection with their refinancing of Invesco Software Holdings Limited’s existing debt.
- Advised Treo Asset Management as sponsor, and Odyssey Europe Holdco S.à r.l. on the restructuring and reorganisation of the OEG group’s capital structure, consent solicitation process to amend and extend its 8.00% senior secured notes due 2023 and repayment of its super senior revolving facility.
- Advised the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and HPS Investment Partners as sponsors, and QMetric Group Limited, as borrower, on the refinancing of certain existing indebtedness of the Group and debt restructuring through a financing provided by National Westminster Bank.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Aymen Mahmoud