Banking & Finance: Sponsors

Ropes & Gray has an exceptional team of highly skilled practitioners advising on complex financings for borrowers and sponsors. The team regularly works for investment banks and private equity funds. It continues to be a strong presence in the European leveraged finance market due to its acute understanding of high-yield issues and masterful handling of UK and US hybrid transactions. The firm is particularly noted for its strength in acquisition financing and unitranche matters. It is also recognised for lender-side work acting for both institutional and alternative lender clients in the mid-market space.

"Ropes & Gray provided excellent management of a highly complex and innovative financing. They are very proactive and did a lot of the thinking for us, which made the process so much smoother."

"They understood what we wanted and worked seamlessly across offices, which was incredibly helpful."

"Ropes & Gray has phenomenal partners and I can't speak more highly of them. They're always there when we need them and do a phenomenal job. They are a trusted adviser and a first point of call."

"The team consists of experienced lawyers who can navigate the legal issues whilst at the same time being commercial within the confines of a volatile market environment."

Ropes & Gray advised Liberty Global and Virgin Media O2 on a £1.474 billion term loan A facility from a syndicate of 27 international banks lenders, including £1.124 billion of new money and £350 million of rolling commitments.

Alexander Robb is noted for his stellar representation of sponsor, borrower and lender clients on domestic and cross-border financings. "Alex Robb is a really good and technically brilliant partner." "Alex provides quick turnaround, is friendly and good to work with, and advises well on what the client and the business need." "We appreciate that Alex sees a lot of flow in the market and is good for providing us with broader knowledge and market context and how we are positioned versus others." "Alex is a tough negotiator and has the skill of summarising for non-legal specialists, always coming up with suggestions rather than problems."