Chambers Review
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Banking & Finance: Sponsors - UK
What the Team is Known For
Ropes & Gray has an exceptional team of highly skilled practitioners advising on complex financings for borrowers and sponsors. The team regularly works for investment banks and private equity funds. It continues to be a strong presence in the European leveraged finance market due to its acute understanding of high-yield issues and masterful handling of UK and US hybrid transactions. The firm is particularly noted for its strength in acquisition financing and unitranche matters. It is also recognised for lender-side work, acting for both institutional and alternative lender clients in the mid-market space.
Strengths
They have an excellent commercial understanding of our business, provide good technical advice and the strong ability to execute successful transactions.
The team is very hardworking, pro-active and creative in their approach.
I have a good degree of trust in the team from the partner level down - they're always available.
Work Highlights
Ropes & Gray advised Liberty Global on an acquisition loan financing to support a public to private acquisition of Telenet Group.
Notable practitioners
He's simply excellent to work with.
He's an excellent technical lawyer who provides sound, efficient and practical advice. He's always available to answer time sensitive queries in the time frame needed.
He's a practitioner who continues to get better - you get really clear and practical advice from him.
It's been a real pleasure working with Ben.
Ben masters even highly complex structures with ease. He always thinks ahead, is economically driven and he's very responsive and pragmatic.