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Provided by Winston & Strawn LLP

Winston & Strawn’s debt finance attorneys represent domestic and international borrowers and lenders in connection with complex financings across a broad range of industries. Clients include leading global and regional banks as well as a large number of credit funds and other direct lenders that provide senior, subordinated, and secured (first- and second-lien) and unsecured loans; institutional investors that regularly participate in the senior debt market; equity sponsors; and borrowers.

The debt finance team in our Chicago office combines legal expertise, industry knowledge, and a deep understanding of the financial markets to provide a comprehensive range of services to borrowers and traditional/specialty lenders in the market. The team represents financial institutions in large, syndicated credit facilities, including cross-border and multicurrency facilities, extended to U.S. and multinational companies in the financial, consumer, industrial, technology, health care, and other sectors, as well as financial institutions on middle-market leveraged cash-flow and asset-based lending transactions. Our Fund Finance team offers one of the most sophisticated, robust, and comprehensive global CLO practices, closing over 130 transactions in the past five years and valued at nearly $45 billion.