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Aymen Mahmoud

Aymen Mahmoud

UK 2026

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About

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Practice Areas

Aymen Mahmoud is the European head of the finance practice, co-head of both the London Transactions Group, and the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group. He is also the managing partner of the Firm’s London office. He focuses his practice on complex debt financing transactions for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, corporate borrowers and issuers and other financial institutions including banks, direct lenders, family offices and other alternative sophisticated capital. His experience includes acting in respect of direct lending, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated senior, second lien and mezzanine lending, distressed debt trading, portfolio acquisitions and restructurings, emerging markets and other debt securities, including high-yield debt offerings. Aymen also has significant experience in connection with pre-EBITDA and recurring revenue financings.

Aymen played a key role in first establishing the Loan Market Association forms of leveraged and high yield documentation and has been recognized in Global Restructuring Review’s global “40 under 40” rankings in 2022 as well as Mergerlinks‘ Top 30 Financing Lawyers in EMEA in 2023.

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Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Leveraged Finance: Mid-Market - London (Firms)

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Aymen Mahmoud is noted for his ability to advise both borrowers and lenders on leveraged buyouts. He is experienced in transactions across sectors and jurisdictions. He is the European head of finance at McDermott Will & Schulte.

Strengths

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  • I would always choose to with Aymen if I could. Hard to overstate his work quality.

    Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • He's very technically strong, commercially aware and personable. We trust Aymen to have our best interests at heart and to deliver top quality advice.

    Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Aymen Mahmoud is an astute leader, who is fiercely intelligent and possesses an innate ability to get to the crux of the matter immediately.

    Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Aymen combines commerciality and tactical expertise better than any other lawyer I have dealt with.

    Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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