DLA Piper provides comprehensive support to clients across a diverse array of banking and finance mandates, enhancing its transactional expertise with significant regulatory knowledge. The team has recently experienced notable growth in its restructuring practice, representing administrators, liquidators, and trustees involved in high-profile bankruptcies and insolvencies. Team head Paul McViety is frequently sought after by financial institutions, sponsors, funds, and governmental bodies for both domestic and cross-border conventional and Islamic financing advice. Co-head James Iremonger is particularly renowned for his work in distressed finance, actively engaging with multiple sectors. Richard Dassin adds further depth with his expertise in derivatives and structured Islamic finance products. Jonathan Downey has a broad financing remit.
Testimonials
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‘The team was always reachable and helpful to meet time-sensitive and very specialized deliverables.’
‘Richard Dassin stands out as someone more of a colleague rather than a service provider who my bank was reaching out to.'
‘Detail oriented, well connected and commercially minded.’
‘James Iremonger is exceptional.’
Key clients
- Alvarez & Marsal, the liquidators of Joannou & Paraskevaides Limited
- Bank of Sharjah
- Boubyan Bank K.S.C.P.
- The joint trustees of the KBBO Group
- Emirates Islamic Bank
- Mediclinic
- GymNation
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
James Iremonger, Paul McViety