Milbank

Milbank’s London office has been operating for over 40 years, assisting clients with complex, high-profile, and cross-border transactional and contentious matters. As the second largest office in Milbank’s global network, it houses over 150 lawyers providing advice under English and New York law on matters spanning the UK, pan-European, Asian, African, and other international jurisdictions. The combination of leading UK and US practices enables the firm to manage the most complex transatlantic mandates.

The firm’s acquisition finance team is recognised for its integrated English and New York law expertise, advising underwriters, financial sponsors, senior and mezzanine lenders, issuers, and borrowers on loans, bonds, bridges, and private debt, including billion-dollar transactions across Europe and globally. Its capital markets practice focuses on initial public offerings, high-yield bonds, leveraged acquisitions, emerging market offerings, project bonds, securitisations, and other structured cross-border products, with particular expertise in complex high-yield bond restructurings and ECM matters in the EMEA region.

Milbank’s corporate practice advises buyers, sellers, private equity investors, strategic partners, and financial advisers on a wide range of M&A and strategic corporate transactions, specialising in complex, high-end, often cross-border deals. The litigation, arbitration, and investigations team handles high-stakes disputes and investigations, particularly in the financial services, energy, and technology sectors. The tax practice provides cross-border expertise in corporate, income, and related taxation matters, assisting clients in international mergers and acquisitions, financial restructurings, structured finance, capital market products, and tax-efficient strategies for consortia, joint ventures, and funding structures.

The firm’s Islamic finance team structures Shari’ah-compliant financings, including acquisition finance, project finance, Sukuk/Islamic bonds, and securitisations. Its project, energy, and infrastructure finance practice is recognised for high-profile mandates across power, oil and gas, metals and mining, water, telecoms and satellites, and transport infrastructure. The restructuring team advises on bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings for companies, boards, creditors, shareholders, and funds across multiple sectors worldwide. The securitisation and structured finance practice serves institutional and fund manager clients, while the transportation and space practice manages complex asset-related financing across aviation, satellites, shipping, and infrastructure, combining expertise in finance, export credit, tax structuring, restructuring, acquisitions, competition, and capital markets.

Languages: Not specified
Staffing: Over 150 lawyers in London
Team Members: Acquisition finance – Suhrud Mehta, Alex Grant, Miko Bradford, Sarbajeet Nag, Laura Bonamis; Capital markets/high yield – Apostolos Gkoutzinis, Tim Peterson, Rebecca Marques, David Dixter, Ana Grbec, Randy Nahlé, Trevor Truman; Restructuring – Yushan Ng, Karen McMaster, Jacquie Ingram, Sinjini Saha, Kate Colman, Sarah Levin; Litigation, arbitration and investigations – Julian Stait, Charles Evans, Tom Canning, Mona Vaswani, William Charles; Corporate and M&A – Lisa O’Neill, Andrej Wolf, Andrea Hamilton, Paul Buchan, James McClymont, Ajal Notowicz, Andrew Nuthall, Jordan Simpson, Lara Watt, Sebastian Heim; Project finance – John Dewar, Munib Hussain, Chris Taufatofua, Matthew Brown; Islamic finance – John Dewar, Munib Hussain; Structured finance – James Warbey, John Goldfinch, Claire Bridcut; Tax – Russell Jacobs; Transportation and space – James Cameron, Nick Swinburne
Memberships: Not specified
International Offices: Frankfurt, Munich, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, São Paulo, Seoul