Mayer Brown International LLP

Mayer Brown International LLP is noted for its strong advisory work with financial institutions, with growing expertise in emerging areas such as ESG, debt-for-nature swaps, complex liability management transactions, and digital notes. The practice is jointly led by James Taylor, Robert Flanigan, and Peter Pears. Taylor advises on high-level capital markets transactions and co-leads the firm’s Turkish capital markets group, representing both major state-owned and private banks in Turkey. Flanigan brings particular expertise in the Spanish market, covering everything from high-profile benchmark issuances to green bonds and regulatory capital offerings; while Pears advises on a broad range of complex international deals, including Eurobonds, medium term notes, regulatory capital, and repackaging programmes.