Our leveraged finance lawyers are experienced in all aspects of the acquisition financing life cycle from initial structuring and term sheet negotiation through to execution.

We can offer you a complete service ability to advise you across all disciplines and sectors, internationally. 

In today’s business environment with great competition for deals, you need legal counsel who can combine extensive subject matter knowledge with a solid understanding of customer relationships and who understands the need for efficient turnaround. We offer a broad range of asset and equipment finance services through our international team of industry-focused lawyers, including former senior in-house counsel at major equipment finance companies.

Our asset-based lending practice is made up of a highly ranked team which works collaboratively both within the firm and with our clients' business and in-house legal teams.

We can offer you an unparalleled combination of skills and breadth of experience. This, along with our diversity and geographical reach, enable us to provide you with a cost-effective yet highly tailored service – specified to your business and your financial goals. Our asset-based lending team is comprised of engaged lawyers who are committed to building long term relationships to support your business.

Corporate trust and agency businesses face unique challenges and opportunities and rely on our market-leading experience and knowledge of the legal, administrative, and transactional environment to help them address those challenges and capitalize on those opportunities. Our experienced global corporate trust and agency team supports clients in their roles as trustees and agents across the full range of capital markets, structured finance, municipal finance, project finance, loan agency, royalty and settlement trusts and banking transactions throughout the life cycle of those transactions, including in relation to statutory trust formation, trust administration, regulatory and legal compliance, restructurings, defaults, insolvencies and related litigation.

El crédito privado y los préstamos no bancarios han aumentado rápidamente, particularmente durante la última década, lo que les brinda a los prestatarios e inversionistas una liquidez de fácil acceso para hacer crecer sus negocios. Este cambio en el mercado de préstamos ha llevado a oportunidades para prestamistas alternativos, tales como fondos de préstamos directos, fondos de crédito con dificultades, proveedores de capital alternativos y bancos “challenger” (bancos pequeños competitivos), en términos de proporcionar crédito a sus clientes, al mismo tiempo que permiten a los prestatarios un acceso más fácil a la liquidez para alcanzar sus objetivos de inversión.

Nuestra práctica dedicada de crédito privado asesora tanto a prestamistas como a prestatarios, al proporcionar soluciones de financiamiento personalizadas en este panorama de rápido desarrollo. Asesoramos sobre cómo encontrar la estructura de capital y los términos de financiamiento adecuados para sus estrategias de inversión, evaluar la estructura e identificar oportunidades para que los prestamistas alternativos capitalicen en sus negocios de préstamos.

Our debt capital markets practice is made up of dedicated lawyers practicing in each of the major capital markets throughout the world, thereby providing you with local knowledge and all-round market insight on cross-border and domestic transactions.

We can advise you on the full spectrum of debt capital market transactions, including standalone bonds and debt programmes, preferred and hybrid securities, equity-linked instruments, liability management, private placements, warrants, and high yield structures.

Digital innovation is causing an unprecedented shift in financial services. Driven by technology, the process can be quite disruptive and is subject to increasing global regulation.

At Reed Smith, we recognize the complexity that the FinTech sector causes you and your business. Our market-leading experience within the financial industry, corporate transactions, capital markets, investment management and funds, information technology, intellectual property, privacy and data security sectors means we are uniquely positioned to provide our skills, services and advice for the FinTech sector.

Reed Smith’s project finance team advises the full spectrum of project participants, including lenders, arrangers, underwriters, borrowers, government agencies and multilateral institutions, on projects and project financings in diverse industries including oil and gas, power and energy, infrastructure and water, mining and minerals, telecommunications and transportation.

In a real estate market subject to constant and rapid evolution, you can be assured that the real estate finance services we provide are targeted and tailored to your needs.

Our global real estate, finance and corporate teams work collaboratively to provide innovative and connected solutions to ensure your real estate finance needs are met by one team who can advise on all aspects of the real estate life cycle.

Social impact finance continues to influence the social well-being and economic prosperity of millions of people and organizations worldwide. At Reed Smith, we formalized our global Social Impact Finance group in response to a growing demand from our clients – clients just like you, with the same desire to impact the societal needs of various peoples.

Our Social Impact Finance initiative focuses on increasing access to funding for organizations that deliver both economic and social returns, such as microfinance institutions, impact investment funds and other social enterprises.

Our sponsor finance team is recognized as a leader in the middle market. Acting as a one-stop financing shop with a global market-leading team, we leverage our sophisticated market insight to advise dozens of the most active private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide range of financing transactions including:

• Leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings
• Working capital financings/refinancings
• Growth equity financings
• Subordinated and mezzanine facilities
• Asset-based loans
• Syndicated credit facilities
• Bridge loans
• Loan workouts and restructurings

Our global structured finance team has over 40 skilled, experienced and engaged lawyers committed to building long term relationships to support your business.

We have one of the broadest and most dynamic structured finance teams in the industry.

Our lawyers have the breadth of representation and experience means that we are able to look at transactions from the perspective of all stakeholders. This ensures that we deliver the highest quality advice, tailored in a way that can pre-empt your concerns and your negotiating positions, as well as those of all interested parties.