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Provided by Marcus J Dougherty
Banking & Finance; Direct Lending/Private Credit.
Marcus Dougherty’s practice focuses on representing banks and other financial institutions in senior lending transactions. He also frequently represents direct lenders in unitranche financings, privately placed second lien loans and other junior capital, including holding company loans and preferred equity.
Mr. Dougherty is a partner in the New York office of Milbank LLP, he leads the leveraged finance practice in the US and is co-head of the firm’s Global Leveraged Finance Group.
Widely recognized as one of the top lender’s legal counsel across financing transactions, he continues to be ranked as a leading banking and finance lawyer in the US and globally. With over thirty years of experience, he has a longstanding reputation of providing sophisticated legal representation of lenders on cross-border and acquisition financings – distinctively able to structure everything from the financing of leveraged buyouts, tender offers and other going private transactions, recapitalizations, bridge and mezzanine financings, and DIP and exit facility financings. He has a broad range of financing experience in both US and international transactions and has been admitted to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong and New York. He is among the top legal advisors for direct lending, often acting on behalf of private credit lenders across a broad array of financing transactions.
He is renowned for his work on groundbreaking financings that he helps to craft to meet the unique challenges of clients needing to raise significant amounts of capital in multiple markets. Select cross-border financings on which he advised the financing sources include, among others, Medline, Nuvei, Grifols, S.A., Worldpac, Omnissa, Textainer, CIRCOR, Simtra BioPharma Solutions, Signature Aviation, Nobian spin-off, Inmarsat plc, Foundation Building Materials, Nouryon (former AkzoNobel specialty chemicals division) and Atotech. He has also advised on financings in connection with McAfee, Simon & Schuster, Cirion, BMC Software, Columbia Gas Pipeline Systems, NIPSCO, ManTech, Internet Brands, Cvent, SimonMed, ClearChoice, MobileIron, MagicLab and Cepsa.
Mr. Dougherty is distinguished as a Market Leader for Banking, the highest recognition in IFLR1000’s Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. He is ranked as a Leading Partner in Legal 500’s Finance: Commercial Lending rankings and as a leading lawyer nationwide for Private Credit in Chambers USA. Also consistently ranked as a leading lawyer for Banking & Finance in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, Mr. Dougherty has handled major transactions for financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Nomura, CIBC, Barclays Capital, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, HSBC and Royal Bank of Canada. MergerLinks has also repeatedly named Mr. Dougherty as a top ten US legal advisor in the publication’s Top Financing Lawyers in North America rankings.
LL.B., UCL
Provided by Chambers
Marcus Dougherty heads the firm's US leveraged finance practice, and is the co-head of its global leveraged finance group. He boasts deep experience in private credit.
Provided by Chambers
Marcus is super sharp, available at all hours and an excellent problem solver. He's top-notch.
Marcus is very client focused. If there's anything we're unhappy about, he's always willing to pick up the phone and talk to me. It makes me feel like a valued client.
He does a huge volume of deals which puts him in an elite category.
Marcus is very client-focused and always willing to pick up the phone and talk.
Marcus is super sharp, available at all hours and an excellent problem solver. He's top-notch.
Marcus is very client focused. If there's anything we're unhappy about, he's always willing to pick up the phone and talk to me. It makes me feel like a valued client.
He does a huge volume of deals which puts him in an elite category.
Marcus is very client-focused and always willing to pick up the phone and talk.