Fergus Wheeler
Global Guide 2024
Band 5 : Banking & Finance
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+44.20.7710.1824Share profile
Band 5
About
Provided by Fergus Wheeler
Practice Areas
Fergus Wheeler focuses on private credit and other debt finance transactions in the leveraged finance space. His experience in leveraged finance spans over 15 years. He works with many of the most active private credit investors and has been at the forefront of legal developments in that asset class for more than a decade. He advises international private credit funds and a range of alternative capital providers investing across the capital structure in both performing and stressed or distressed situations. Fergus is widely recognized in the market as one of the leading holdco financing lawyers, having advised on multiple holdco PIK, preferred equity and complex back leverage transactions over the past decade.
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LL.B., Trinity College, Dublin, 2000
Chambers Review
Global
Fergus Wheeler of Akin Gump has substantial expertise in direct lending matters. He acts across the capital structure, counting a number of private credit funds and alternative capital providers among his client base.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fergus is very well regarded in the private credit world."
"Fergus is very well regarded in the private credit world."