Alex Mitchell
Europe Guide 2024
Band 2 : Banking & Finance
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About
Provided by Alex Mitchell
Practice Areas
Alex is a banking partner in London and heads the leveraged finance team. He has broad experience acting on a range of acquisition and infrastructure finance and restructuring transactions, and has a particular focus on acting for private equity houses and investment funds on leveraged acquisitions and refinancings.
Career
Alex joined Freshfields in 1999 and qualified as a solicitor in 2001. He has been a partner since 2008.
Professional Memberships
Solicitor of the senior courts of England and Wales (2001).
Personal
Law degree, with first class honours, University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall (1997).
Chambers Review
Europe
Alex Mitchell is global co-head of Freshfields' leveraged finance group and regularly acts for investment fund and private equity clients. He is well positioned to act on complex multi-jurisdictional financings while also handling mid-sized domestic transactions for portfolio companies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Alex is one of the most respected lawyers in the leveraged finance market. He is very smart, very creative and collaborative, and both lenders and borrowers respect him and his views."
"Alex is one of the most respected lawyers in the leveraged finance market. He is very smart, very creative and collaborative, and both lenders and borrowers respect him and his views."