Anselm Lenhard

Anselm has a broad practice as a banking & finance lawyer and assists clients with debt finance transactions across the entire credit spectrum.

He has a particular focus on leveraged finance and regularly advises on acquisition financings and other sponsor-driven financings in various structures, often as part of LARK’s private equity practice.

Another core area of his practice is advising on corporate financings in the investment grade and cross-over credit spectrum. He advises on bilateral and syndicated credit financings, private placements such as Schuldschein loans and other complex structured financings as well as intra-group financings such as the set-up and implementation of cash pooling and clearing systems.

Anselm is also experienced in venture debt financings for growth companies and advises in sync with LARK’s venture capital practice.

He also supports clients with financial restructurings.

In addition, Anselm has extensive experience with litigation finance transactions and provides transactional advice to prominent litigation funding firms, hedge funds, and other investors in this burgeoning field of specialty finance on a regular basis.

Anselm is a founding partner of LARK.

Prior to joining LARK, he established and led the debt finance practice of GLNS after several years in the banking & finance practice group of Freshfields in Munich, Frankfurt and New York.

Anselm also has first-hand knowledge of the internal processes of legal and corporate development departments of larger corporate groups, having worked briefly as in-house counsel in the banking & finance legal department of Siemens AG, Munich and as secondee to the corporate M&A department of Deutsche Bank AG, New York.