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Leveraged Finance

We are one of the leading Leveraged Finance practices in the world, known for ground-breaking deals and structures that eventually become market standards.

Thanks to our network, we can combine a multi-jurisdictional leveraged debt team with an extensive capital markets practice.

This enables us to provide our clients with a full service for senior, second-lien, mezzanine and PIK debt, bridge-to-bond financings, bank/bond financings, high-yield debt offerings, securitisation take-outs and debt buy-backs and restructurings.

Our sector knowledge and understanding of our clients’ business objectives enables us to provide legal advice that truly meets those aims within the context of the overall rationale for the debt package. Lenders and borrowers alike need to be able to structure deals in ways that suit market conditions. Our lawyers can advise on any form of leveraged financing that our clients choose to undertake.

The leveraged finance market has changed. Deals these days are different and structuring them demands a broad mix of finance capabilities. We combine our market-leading practices in banking and leveraged finance with a pre-eminent high yield practice. This makes us one of the very few law firms that has the ability to cover all aspects of complicated leveraged finance and high yield transactions and crossover and emerging markets high yield transactions.

 
 

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News: 18 March 2024

Le private equity à l’heure de l’ESG

Fin 2023, le club BACI (Banque d’affaires & capital-investissement) organisait une table ronde dans les locaux parisiens d’HEC Alumni, où sont intervenus deux spécialistes d’Allen & Overy : Thomas…

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News: 29 January 2024

Allen & Overy conseille IFT sur la mise en place d’un refinancement de plus de 3 milliards d’euros pour poursuivre sa stratégie de cofinancement de la fibre optique en France

Allen & Overy a conseillé IFT, opérateur et fournisseur d’accès aux lignes FttH, dans le cadre du partenariat stratégique entre Iliad, Free et Infravia Capital Partners dédié au refinancement de…

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