Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP advises a range of clients, including hedge funds, finance companies, insurance companies commercial and investment banks. On the leveraged finance and private credit side, the team typically handles leveraged finance acquisition financings, first and second lien financings, syndicated credit facilities and debtor-in-possession facilities. The team’s fund finance work features representation of agents, lead arrangers and lenders on a range of fund finance facilities. Jointly leading the team at practice head level is new addition to the team Ronald Lovelace from King & Spalding LLP, who focuses his practice on leveraged finance and other debt financings; New-York based Christopher McDermott who is knowledgeable of innovation and emerging technologies which impact financing transactions, such as blockchain technology; Wesley Misson is a key name for ESG facilities and commercial finance expert Jeffrey Nagle. Along with Lovelace, Joseph Polonsky, Patrick J. Yingling and Jared Zajac joined the team from King & Spalding LLP in February 2023. All lawyers mentioned are based in Charlotte unless otherwise stated.
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‘CWT are an exceptional team of lawyers and leaders in the industry at every level.’
‘The team have exceptional insight into the market and use this insight to the benefit of their clients and the transaction as a whole every time.’
Key clients
- Alternative Reference Rates Committee (“ARRC”)
- Bank of America Corporation
- Citibank
- Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch (“Rabobank”)
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.("JPMorgan")
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. ("MUFG")
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ("Mizuho")
- Société Générale
- Sound Point Capital Management, LP("Sound Point Capital")
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ("Wells Fargo")
Work highlights
- Advised the Alternative Reference Rates Committee in drafting recommended contractual fallback language for U.S. Dollar LIBOR denominated bilateral business loans and securitizations.
- Advised a group of joint lead arrangers including JPMorgan, Mizuho, MUFG, and Wells Fargo on the closing of five separate revolving credit facilities for Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company and its subsidiaries in an aggregate amount of up to $8bn.
- Advised MUFG as administrative agent, collateral agent, bookrunner and lead arranger on a $4.54bn senior secured uncommitted commodities borrowing base revolving credit facility for Trafigura.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Ronald Lovelace, Christopher McDermott, Wesley Misson, Jeffrey Nagle