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Vanessa Xu

Partner

London

Xu Vanessa
Vanessa Xu

Partner

London

Vanessa is a Partner in the London leveraged and acquisition finance team. Vanessa advises on a range of structured finance transactions and has particular experience in domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts. She is particularly proficient in advising borrowers and financial sponsors on leveraged finance transactions with a multi-jurisdictional component and is regarded by those clients as a highly credible practitioner in this field. She has experience at all levels of the capital structure of these transactions, including bank/bond transactions, “cov-lite” and “cov-loose” loans, TLB, second lien, unitranche and PIK instruments.

 

Vanessa is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and an attorney and counsellor-at-law in the State of New York. She is technically excellent and extremely versatile.

Vanessa has been profiled by Legal Week in their article Rising Stars: the next generation of City Private equity talent, and more recently named 40 under 40 Rising Stars in Private Equity (Legal Week 2019).

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Office

London

One Bishops Square
London
E1 6AD

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Qualifications

Professional

Attorney and Counselor-at-law, the State of New York

Solicitor, England and Wales