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Finance, Funds & Restructuring

Global Loans

Modern lending transactions demand commercial judgment, market fluency, and efficient execution across jurisdictions, industries, and capital structures

Ashurst Perkins Coie’s Global Loans practice advises lenders, borrowers, private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad spectrum of domestic and cross-border financing transactions.

With lawyers across offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, we bring genuine global reach to transactions that require seamless execution across jurisdictions, legal systems, and markets.

We help clients structure, negotiate, and close financings that support acquisitions, growth initiatives, recapitalizations, working capital needs, restructurings, and other strategic business objectives across key markets worldwide. Our team represents both lenders and borrowers in sophisticated transactions executed on accelerated timelines, as well as in middle-market matters that require practical, business-focused solutions. We counsel clients across a wide range of industries, including technology, energy, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, infrastructure, and other asset-intensive sectors. In every engagement, we focus on aligning financing terms with commercial priorities, preserving key relationships, and supporting long-term enterprise value.

We advise on secured and unsecured loans, asset-based and cash flow facilities, senior, mezzanine, and subordinated debt transactions, and other tailored credit structures. Our lawyers regularly handle syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, first-lien, second-lien, and split-lien financings, unitranche facilities, structured loan participations, and private direct lending transactions. We also counsel on working capital facilities, letter of credit facilities, credit enhancement transactions, recapitalizations, distressed debt investments, and workout and restructuring matters.

Our practice extends to financings tied to specific assets, projects, and investment strategies, including real estate, construction, equipment, aircraft, and import and export financings, as well as venture and startup lending. We also bring integrated capabilities in project finance, public finance, and capital markets, advising on bond and note issuances, high-yield offerings, Rule 144A transactions, and other public and private placements of debt, preferred, and convertible securities.

Across these matters, Ashurst Perkins Coie delivers coordinated, commercial advice on complex collateral packages, intercreditor arrangements, multilender structures, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory considerations. Our Global Loans team combines strong execution with practical judgment to help clients close efficiently, manage risk, and position each financing to advance broader business goals.

Global execution across markets

We coordinate financings across jurisdictions, legal systems, and market structures, delivering consistent, efficient execution for complex cross-border transactions.

Deal perspective from both sides

Our experience representing both sides of the market gives us a practical understanding of deal dynamics, helping us anticipate issues and structure more effective outcomes.

Complex credit structures

From leveraged buyouts to structured lending, we design credit facilities that align with business objectives and adapt to evolving market conditions.

Speed without compromise

We execute transactions on accelerated timelines while maintaining rigor, helping clients move quickly without sacrificing quality or risk management.

Integrated financing capabilities

We combine experience across loans, capital markets, and project finance to deliver coordinated solutions for sophisticated funding strategies.

Commercial focus, practical results

We prioritize terms that matter, aligning financing structures with real-world business needs, long-term relationships, and enterprise value.

How we can help

Commercial lending

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Commercial lending

We represent lenders and borrowers in a wide range of commercial lending transactions, advising on the structuring, documentation, and negotiation of credit arrangements tailored to business needs, risk profiles, and industry dynamics. Our experience includes secured and unsecured facilities, revolving and term loans, asset-based lending, and working capital solutions.

We focus on key commercial drivers such as covenant structures, collateral packages, pricing, and enforcement rights, ensuring that agreements are both protective and workable in practice. We regularly handle cross-border financings, coordinating terms across jurisdictions, and aligning documentation with local regulatory requirements. Our approach emphasizes clarity, execution efficiency, and long-term relationship management.
Acquisition and leveraged finance

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Acquisition and leveraged finance

Ashurst Perkins Coie advises private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and corporate borrowers on acquisition financings and leveraged transactions, structuring deals that balance speed, certainty, and flexibility. Our work includes layered capital structures, intercreditor arrangements, and lender coordination across complex deal environments.

We support transactions from initial structuring through closing, addressing diligence, documentation, and execution challenges on accelerated timelines. Our experience spans cross-border acquisitions and multijurisdictional financings, where we align financing terms with deal strategy and integration planning. We understand how these transactions function in practice and focus on outcomes that support both immediate execution and long-term value.
Private direct lending

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Private direct lending

Ashurst Perkins Coie represents direct lenders, private credit funds, sponsors, and borrowers in private lending transactions across a range of deal sizes and structures. Our lawyers understand the evolving private credit market and advise on structuring bespoke credit solutions tailored to specific investment strategies and borrower needs.

We regularly address covenant design, collateral coverage, pricing mechanisms, and enforcement rights, with a focus on balancing flexibility and protection. Our experience includes cross-border private credit transactions and multilender arrangements, where execution risk and timing are critical. We help clients navigate negotiations efficiently while ensuring that credit terms perform as intended over the life of the investment.
Specialty finance

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Specialty finance

Ashurst Perkins Coie offers a sector-focused practice and experience across specialist lending asset classes, including bridging, development and other real estate backed assets, payment businesses, consumer lending, debt purchase, asset/auto finance, litigation finance, and other esoteric assets. We have a wealth of experience advising specialist lenders, asset managers, major banks, and alternative lenders and private capital institutions in the specialty finance sector. We understand that our clients require much more from us than technical excellence. They need us to understand their business and industries to provide them with elegant, relevant advice shaped by market insight. We take time to understand the nuances of the asset class and your strategic ambitions to ensure we provide advice and execution that enhances your market offering and drives your business forward.
Fund and NAV finance

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Fund and NAV finance

Ashurst Perkins Coie has a developed and growing, internationally recognized fund finance team, with one of the largest groups of fund finance lawyers worldwide. Our lawyers act on market-leading deals and have helped shape the market as it stands today. Working with our leading fund formation, fund tax, and securitization practices, we advise lenders and borrowers on a wide array of financing solutions. We deliver integrated advice on leverage and bridge financing, implementing carried interest and co-investment schemes, and secondary transactions and management spinouts. We act on the full range of net asset value (NAV) financings, including traditional, hybrid, and preferred equity financings.

We are at the forefront of the evolving NAV market, with notable experience advising on recent top-tier financings and contributing thought leadership in the sector. This work requires a deep understanding of the market and how financing arrangements interact with relevant fund, asset, and transaction structures.
Infrastructure finance

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Infrastructure finance

Ashurst Perkins Coie's infrastructure finance practice offers sophisticated legal experience in M&A, private equity, leveraged and acquisition finance, private public partnerships, project finance, project and utility bonds, and bank and bond transactions.

We regularly act for sponsors, public sector agencies, contractors, equity investors, and debt financiers, giving us insight into the concerns of all transaction participants. Our lawyers work closely with our corporate, regulatory, and energy and resources teams, enabling us to deliver the most relevant, practical, and sector-specific advice.
Real estate finance

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Real estate finance

Ashurst Perkins Coie’s highly reputed real estate finance practice has been involved in some of the highest-profile and most innovative transactions in the market globally. Advising lenders, borrowers, arrangers, sponsors, equity providers, fund managers, investors, developers, construction companies, and government authorities on high-value, complex, domestic, and cross-border real estate backed debt solutions worldwide. Our work in this area spans investment, development, restructuring, structured products, and innovative hybrid solutions. We also advise on a wide range of asset classes, including residential real estate, build-to-rent projects, business parks, hotels, hospitals and care homes, shopping centers, student accommodation, offices, and logistics and data centers.
Strategic projects and infrastructure

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Strategic projects and infrastructure

Key real estate challenges:
Developing and financing strategic and infrastructure-linked real estate projects involves complex stakeholder management, regulatory risk, and capital structuring.

How we help:
We support clients through the development and financing of strategic projects, including energy transition, transport hubs, and digital infrastructure. Our teams deliver integrated advice, ensuring successful outcomes in high-profile projects.
Lending to funds

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Lending to funds

Fund financing is a growing sector that presents an opportunity to generate investment returns by providing loans to private market funds, including credit funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, and infrastructure funds. The market for lending to funds is likely to grow significantly in the years ahead as the size of private market funds also grows.
Ashurst Perkins Coie delivers integrated, tailored, and cost-effective advice that covers all aspects of fund finance. Our global investment funds team and global finance team work for many of the world’s largest banks, funds, and other industry participants. We advise on a range of financing structures, including subscription finance, secondaries financing, asset-backed facilities, hybrid facilities, and general partner facilities. Our lawyers have a long track record of successfully managing large, complex, multijurisdictional transactions.
High yield

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High yield

Underwriters and issuers in high yield markets are under pressure to produce the best solutions in the face of multiple risk exposures, including default risk, interest rate risk, economic risk, and liquidity risk. They can benefit from the support advisers who have extensive experience in the markets and industries in which high yield investors are most active.
Ashurst Perkins Coie can help you with your complex financing needs globally. Our team delivers innovative advice on the full range of high yield products, including bridge-to-bond structures, bank and bond transactions, leveraged buyouts, liability management, and restructuring in developed and emerging markets. From Chinese property credits to European oil and gas, we understand the complexities in markets around the world. We also apply the latest deal techniques and experience in market dynamics to develop bespoke financing solutions, often involving multiple sources of funding.