Finance, Funds & Restructuring

Supporting clients with innovative financing solutions, navigating complex regulatory landscapes, and maximizing returns

To meet demanding regulatory requirements and an increasingly sophisticated financing landscape, clients need counsel who understand the intersection of cross border presence, local regulation, and the agility of global capital.

Deep experience

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we help our clients address complex financial, regulatory, and business needs. From structuring and executing finance transactions, capital markets, financial regulation, and investment funds to special situations, our lawyers provide practical guidance grounded in legal experience, industry knowledge, and technology-informed solutions.

Global reach with local insights

We have skilled finance professionals in all the world's main financial centers. Our global reach allows us to support clients across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific operating a "follow the sun" model. We blend local market knowledge with a unified, cross-border strategy to meet our clients' business needs with clarity and assurance.

At the crossroads of finance and technology

Whether structuring one of the world's first tokenized digital asset platforms for global capital markets or advising international banks on their core digital transformation programs, our track record speaks for itself. By understanding both the promise and the scrutiny that comes with fintech innovation, we guide our clients through the uncertainty with confidence and precision, to help them succeed in this highly competitive and increasingly complex ecosystem.

Global loans

Our Global Loans team brings strong execution and practical judgment to help clients close transactions efficiently, manage risk, and support broader business objectives. Our practices include acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate lending and loan markets, specialty finance, funds finance, real estate finance, private credit, non-performing loan portfolios, and infrastructure finance.

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Global markets

We advise issuers, underwriters, lenders, investors, financial advisors, and trustees on capital markets transactions spanning global financial centers. Our practice areas include debt capital markets, U.S. securities, digital assets, derivatives and structured products, securitization and structured finance, high-yield financings, project and infrastructure financings, Islamic finance and corporate trustee and agency, across the capital stack.

Financial regulation

We regularly advise banks and other institutions on their global financial regulatory obligations. Our lawyers design and implement regulatory compliance programs and provide practical guidance on complex issues involving banking, funds, payments, broker-dealer activity, and digital assets in major financial centers.

Investment funds

We deliver tailored advice to clients on all legal aspects of fund management and investments, including fund formation, open- and closed-end funds, secondaries, sovereign wealth funds, pension and superannuation funds, management spinouts, private equity sponsors, family offices, and carried interest structures across traditional and emerging asset classes.

Restructuring and special situations

Our restructuring professionals represent clients in turnaround, restructuring, insolvency, and distressed situations. Whether working to turn around a company experiencing difficulty, applying creative techniques to a distressed company, advising lenders and financial advisers, or managing a major corporate collapse, we have the requisite skills and experience to optimize each client's position.

Fintech

We tackle first-impression legal questions for the full range of fintech platforms, including payment systems, mobile and web-based financial tools, digital asset networks, wallets and exchanges, and blockchain-based technologies that are driving modern financial technology innovation. We provide practical product counsel, licensing and chartering advice, and regulatory certainty for innovative products.

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