Cleary Gottlieb’s capital solutions and private credit practice brings deep experience advising a wide range of stakeholders, from investors assessing opportunistic transactions to businesses addressing financial challenges, finding innovative solutions to complex issues.

The firm’s market-leading lawyers from our debt finance, restructuring, capital markets, structured finance, tax, M&A, real estate, funds and litigation practices collaborate to deliver seamless, creative and strategic advice.

Spanning both developed and emerging markets, we work on a wide range of debt, equity and hybrid capital solutions, including traditional loans, unitranche loans, mezzanine loans, structured credit, net-asset-value (NAV) loans, rescue and DIP financings, preferred equity, quasi-equity, PIPEs and convertible and other hybrid debt.  We have extensive global expertise in the full range of liability management transactions, with or without new money components, whether consensual or through court proceedings. We focus on the needs of each client’s business, with a goal of structuring and implementing optimal financing and liability management transactions.

We are recognized as a pioneer in the development and implementation of novel liability management techniques, including waterfall exchange offers, Dutch auctions, strategies to address credit default swaps, loan buybacks and related transactions.

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