Finance and Transactions

Our work on the corporate and transactional front covers:

FinTech (Emerging Companies, Venture Capital and Strategic Investments, M&A, and Joint Ventures)

We represent both investors and start-ups across every phase of FinTech transactions. We assist in structuring the transaction or venture at the initial stage of formation of a client, consortium, or joint venture, then provide representation at the due diligence and fundraising/investment cycle and documentation and negotiation stage, and stay involved once the fundraiser, investment, or transaction is finished, including helping clients with ongoing corporate governance matters across complex capital structures. Upon conclusion, we help clients with various forms of exit, including unwinding joint ventures. 

Our advice integrates both the transactional and regulatory aspects of FinTech transactions. While not every FinTech is itself regulated, the financial services industry is heavily regulated, and we believe companies and ventures can be most successful when regulatory considerations are taken into account from the outset. In addition, our decades of experience in the financial services industry and representation of a wide variety of industry participants help us structure transactions and ventures that account for the unique relationship of collaboration and competition that many FinTechs have with more established financial services industry participants.  

Securities

Our transactional securities services include public and private securities offerings and guidance and counseling regarding SEC disclosure obligations and related matters, which is complemented by the securities work we perform in both the regulatory enforcement and litigation spaces.

Commercial Finance and Lending

We represent North American and European banks, specialty and commercial finance companies (including factors and discounters), and litigation funders in domestic and cross-border commercial, asset-based lending (ABL), and other specialty lending arrangements, as well as corporate borrowers in secured and unsecured loan arrangements. Our market-leading U.S. and UK ABL teams regularly act for U.S. and European-based banks and private equity finance houses on significant cross-border facilities for corporate borrowers, and we act separately for financial companies as borrowers. Our experience extends to grants of participations and sales and purchases of loan books (including factoring and discounting books).

Investment Funds

Our diverse investment fund representation covers many areas, with a particular focus on assisting first-time managers looking to raise investment funds and on investors seeking to invest in a variety of venture capital, private equity, and other funds. We also collaborate with other firm practices to provide guidance in the range of clients’ dealings with investment funds.

Bankruptcy, Insolvency, Restructuring, and Creditor Rights

Our team provides multi-faceted bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and creditor rights support in the United States and United Kingdom. In the U.S., our team principally represents creditors in a bankruptcy, creditors in asset protection proceedings (such as receivership or secured party enforcement actions), and companies restructuring in or around bankruptcy, while also acting as bankruptcy Trustee or Trustee’s counsel. Lawyers in the firm’s London office provide insolvency and restructuring services professionals (bankruptcy trustees) with a view to maximizing recoveries into the bankruptcy estate. Such actions include the sale of the business and its assets, as well as recovery actions against third parties who have defrauded a business, misappropriated company assets, or committed actions which have caused the company loss focused on finance providers/security holders. We advise on formal restructuring and insolvency, both in non-contentious and contentious matters.