Global Markets

Ashurst Perkins Coie’s debt capital markets practice provides advice on the full range of debt offerings across the credit spectrum, from investment grade to high yield. We have extensive experience advising on both public and private offerings, medium-term note programs, hybrid bonds and regulatory capital, covered bonds, commercial paper and certificate of deposit programs, project and infrastructure bonds, whole business securitisations, equity-linked bonds, ESG/green bonds, digital bonds, and liability management transactions (distressed and non-distressed). We help clients manage disclosure, documentation, execution, and timing considerations in active and evolving markets, ensuring they are well-positioned to navigate the most complex financing structures.

Our team supports clients throughout the full life cycle of securitization and structured finance transactions, advising early-stage originators, established public issuers, banks, funds, and institutional investors.

Our experience spans a wide range of specialty finance asset classes and structures. We pair technical rigor with commercial insight and practical judgment to support clients from initial transactions to established, complex multijurisdictional platforms.

Our breadth of experience reflects decades of collective legal and market experience. We have advised clients through multiple economic cycles and periods of regulatory change, helping them adapt structures, programs, and strategies as markets evolve.

Our dedicated corporate trust and agency team advises on the full range of capital markets and banking transactions, including project finance, loan agency, securitizations, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), standalone bond issuances, defaults, and restructurings.

We represent banks and trust companies serving as indenture trustees and in related agency capacities across domestic and cross-border transactions, workouts and amendment scenarios outside bankruptcy contexts, and ongoing trust and administration matters. Our team focuses on trust and agency clients, developing a clear understanding of their requirements, goals, and business drivers. We help resolve complex technical issues and move transactions to completion.

Our global derivatives and structured products practice advises major market participants on a broad range of derivative and structured product transactions, including over-the-counter and cleared derivatives across equity, credit, commodity, interest rate, foreign exchange, longevity, and digital asset products; securitized structured products, including programs, platforms, trade flow, and proprietary indices; securities financing and prime brokerage; asset repackaging; regulatory capital transactions; and collateralized financing transactions.

We help clients assess documentation, risk allocation, and relevant regulatory considerations across financings, capital markets activity, and broader risk management strategies. Our team includes professionals in key financial centers around the world who closely track regulatory developments. We also collaborate with Ashurst Advance and Risk Advisory to deliver institution-wide regulatory change projects, including for some of the largest sell-side institutions.

The project and infrastructure bonds market has been resilient in recent times, despite high inflation and turbulent economic and geopolitical conditions.

Our global project and infrastructure finance team offers exceptional expertise in financing infrastructure projects, with a project and infrastructure bonds practice that is service-driven, creative and pragmatic. We have advised on some of the largest and most complex project and infrastructure bond financings and whole business securitisations. Our global team has a proven record of delivering award-winning transactions, and developing new financing techniques. We also advise all market participants, including mainstream banks, sponsors, credit enhancement providers and multilateral development banks.

Our global Islamic finance team advises a wide range of clients, including Islamic and conventional banks, central banks, corporates, and sovereigns, on the full range of Islamic finance products and transactions. These include sukuk, Islamic real estate and infrastructure funds, hedging and risk management, corporate bank financings, and infrastructure projects.

Our multidisciplinary team brings together finance, funds, corporate, infrastructure, and tax lawyers, allowing us to support clients across the full life cycle of a transaction. With a substantial global network of Islamic finance practitioners, including a strong presence in London, Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dubai, we support clients on multijurisdictional transactions with local legal insight and market knowledge.