Banking and Loan Finance
The economic climate has heightened both the risks
and rewards involved in banking transactions. Finding
the optimal deal structure and terms has never been soimportant.

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Whether you are considering a new financing,refinancing options, or a restructuring, our banking
lawyers positioned around the world function as anintegrated team to anticipate your needs and those ofyour financing. We advise on innovative lendingtransactions, bank products, credit products, dealstructures, and on all types of secured transactions tomeet your goals. And we ensure that all banking
matters we work on benefit from the firm's deepindustry sector knowledge and experience.

New York

Our clients range from blue chip corporates and private
equity sponsors to lending institutions that include
banks, insurance companies, funds, and other financialinstitutions. Our core banking practice areas include
leveraged and acquisition finance, funds lending, realestate finance, asset finance, syndicated lending, Islamic
finance, and trade and commodity finance.

Paul Mullen,London

Deborah K. Staudinger,

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Representative experience
Advising HM Treasury on the Energy Markets Financing
Scheme (EMFS), on the innovative and bespoke schemethat was run jointly with the Bank of England to address
extraordinary liquidity requirements that were faced byenergy firms operating in the UK gas and electricity

Areas of focus
Direct Lending
Consumer Finance
Cross-border Restructuring andmarkets. The scheme opened for applications on 17October 2022 and provided up to £40bn of short-term
liquidity support to the UK energy sector.
Advising Arctic Aviation Assets DAC on its finance leasefacility for up to ten new B737 MAX-8 aircraft and two
CFM LEAP-1A spare engines with CCB Leasing(International) Corporation DAC, to be operated byairlines in the Norwegian Air Shuttle group. This was
the Norwegian group's first new on-balance sheet
financing since its emergence from bankruptcy
proceedings in 2021.
Advised Vena Energy Taiwan Renewables Ltd. asborrower, with DBS Bank (Taiwan) Ltd., KGI Bank Co.,
Ltd. and Bank Sinopac Co., Ltd. as lenders, on the
NT$1.6bn debt financing of a solar energy project witha proposed installed generation capacity of up to41.864 MWdc located in Yunlin Taiwan.
Advising a consortium of banks on a facility agreementof EUR 1.035 billion for Frankfurt-based data center
operator main cubes. The EUR 1.035 billion is made upfrom EUR 685 million committed facilities with afurther EUR 350 million uncommitted accordion.
Advising Ares Management on the refinancing of Sykes
Holiday Cottages (Sykes), a vacation rental
management platform backed by private equity firm
Vitruvian Partners, and the financing of Sykes’s
acquisition of Forest Holidays, the UK’s leading ownerand operator of environmentally sensitive cabins.
Advising VICI Properties, Inc. on a number oftransactions, including leading capital markets andsecurities matters related to its 2022 US$17.2 billion
strategic acquisition of MGM Growth Properties LLC.
The acquisition is one of the largest deals of 2022 andone of the largest REIT deals of all time.
Advising an international agri-business AMS Ameropa
Marketing and Sales AG in relation to an English lawgoverned USD and EUR multicurrency revolving
borrowing base facility with a syndicate of over 20
banks, to refinance an existing Swiss law facility.

Insolvency
FinTechFund Finance
Islamic Finance
Loan Portfolio and Distressed Debt
Transactions
Sustainable Finance & Investment

Related practices
Asset FinanceRestructuring and Special Situations
Capital Markets
Financial Services
Infrastructure, Energy, Resources,and Projects
Leveraged and Acquisition Finance
Private Equity
Real Estate FinanceTrade and Export FinanceAdvising U.S. International Development FinanceCorporation (DFC) and Norfund on a syndicatedreceivables-backed financing to d.light Kenya to financethe supply of solar home systems in Kenya.
Advising UBS Asset Management Real Estate & Private
Markets (UBS) and Northern Fiber Holding GmbH(NFH) on the signing of a large debt financing package
for the expansion of its fiber networks.
Advising the lenders on the debt financing to support
Volpi Capital Investments Conti LP, a new Continuation
Fund, acquire the remaining interests held by Volpi
Capital Investments L.P. in Cyclomedia.
Advising ICG on the financing to the entities of theNAOS Hotel Group for the acquisition and constructionof a hotel at Nice Airport to operate under the Sheraton
brand.
Advising AshGrove Capital, a London-based specialty
lending fund on a facility for Qoria Limited, the ASXlisted leading global provider of digital safety andstudent wellbeing solutions.
Advising Celonis in securing debt financing as part of
US$1bn capital raise to help its customers fighteconomic and supply chain challenges with process
improvements.
Advising IDB Invest on its reverse factoring facility tosuppliers of TIA Stores, one of the leading supermarket
chains in Ecuador.
Advising Gaw Capital in relation to the HK$780m
financing and refinancing of the renovation and rebranding of The InterContinental Hong Kong into
Regent Hotel.
Advising Taulia Inc, the San Francisco-based fintech
business, on the establishment of its innovative multifunder supply-chain financing (SCF) platform.
Advising Carte Postale Investment Limited on therefinancing and capex financing of the Beaumier Groupby Cheyne.

Advising The Berenberg Green Energy Junior Debt
Funds on the financing of two solar parks in Italy andChile for CCE Holding.

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