Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP

Often working alongside its highly rated M&A team, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP‘s ’highly skilled’ borrower-focused practice has strong traction among corporates and financial sponsors, including on deals within heavily regulated industries. Unencumbered by any lender ties, the team, which is headed by Pete Coulton, is well-placed to elicit the best possible terms for its clients utilising financial products throughout all tiers of the capital structure, including syndicated loans, private credit, ABL PIK financings. Sebastian FitzGerald has had an immediate impact and since joining from Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP at the end of 2023 has worked on a number of key sponsor-led new money and refinancing transactions.