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Private Credit - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins has attained a reputation for excellence for its private debt and direct lending practice, with clients often turning to its lawyers for their most complex and sophisticated lending transactions. The firm offers expertise across the full range of financing matters, including midmarket and large-cap transactions.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins LLP advised Golub Capital in connection with a $3.4 billion unitranche facility for Hyland Software.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Alfred Xue
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Alfred Xue
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Alfred Xue is held in high esteem for his lending practice and has an excellent track record in advising private equity firms and other alternative lenders on direct lending transactions.

Alfred has excellent experience within direct lending, and a broad range of knowledge.

Alfred does a really great job not only identifying key legal issues but also coming up with commercial solutions.

Alfred has the pulse of the market. He is super commercial and always available.

Daniel Seale
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Daniel Seale
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Daniel Seale is considered one of the industry's foremost experts in direct lending, with clients benefiting from his tremendous depth of experience in acting for private capital providers across the full gamut of financing transactions.

Daniel is excellent to work with.

We don't hesitate to turn to Daniel for our most complicated matters.

Stelios Saffos
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Stelios Saffos
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Stelios Saffos is frequently called upon by private equity firms and other investors on a broad range of lending and wider capital markets transactions.

Stelios is truly the best in the business. He's built an amazing franchise at Latham, and it's because he is extremely commercial, offers tremendous client service and has seen everything.

Stelios has an unusually high level of touch and service, which combines with a perfectly current and relevant base of knowledge.

Stelios has a broad network; he is very experienced across a range of transactions and knows who to bring into a deal team.

Peter Sluka
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Peter Sluka
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Peter Sluka serves as global cochair of the firm's hybrid capital practice. He represents a client base of leading direct lenders, among other financial institutions.

The level of his client service is consistently superb. Peter is an outstanding deal partner who is always forward-thinking, technically adept and highly likable.

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Alfred Xue
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Alfred Xue
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Daniel Seale
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Daniel Seale
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Stelios Saffos
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Stelios Saffos
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Peter Sluka
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Peter Sluka
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