Paul Hastings LLP

The global finance team at Paul Hastings LLP has a highly regarded lender-side practice, housing leading investment banks and private credit funds in its client roster. Its expertise encompasses syndicated institutional term loans, direct lending and asset-based transactions to debt capital markets, including high-yield and investment grade offerings. John Cobb and Jennifer Yount jointly lead the practice from the New York office. Cobb focuses his practice on leveraged loan and capital market transactions, while Yount is a key name for multi-tranche and multi-lien transactions, as well as the structuring of cross-border transactions.  Morgan Bale is a key support to the team, specializing in investment-grade finance transactions. Paris Theofanidis focuses on finance, derivatives and structured products from the Houston office. May 2023 saw the addition of Joshua Zelig, Marc Lashbrook and David Barash to the firm from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP. All lawyers are in New York unless otherwise mentioned.