Paul Sephton

Banking & Finance, Corporate, Restructuring, Private Equity, Environmental, Social & Governance, Family Office

Paul Sephton is the global head of our Banking & Finance and Corporate groups, the managing partner of our Hong Kong office, and a member of our Executive Committee. He specialises in debt finance and routinely advises leading onshore law firms, major international financial institutions and listed and private companies on a range of financial products. This includes leveraged finance, margin lending, acquisition finance, pre-IPO finance, take-private transactions, bond issuances, convertible instruments, derivative transactions, property finance and syndicated lending.

Before joining Harneys, Paul was part of the finance team at Walkers’ Hong Kong office. He also previously held positions at Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman) in London and Linklaters in Hong Kong. During his tenure, Paul completed secondments with Barclays' legal team in London and with Standard Chartered’s leveraged finance team in Hong Kong.