Squire Patton Boggs

Squire Patton Boggs has ‘deep expertise and a proactive approach.’ In the financial services practice- led by Paula Laird- Leona McManus is the standout partner for derivatives and structured finance issues. Clients remark that McManus ’knows the products, the market and the law’. She focuses on English law derivative transactions across all asset classes, as well as complex and bespoke structured finance products. She has particular expertise in equity financing transactions, involving margin loans and equity collar financings, and has in-depth knowledge on the use of derivatives technology in project finance, shipping finance, infrastructure finance, leveraged finance and acquisition finance, including Islamic hedging instruments. She advised long-standing client ECI Partners LLP on acquisition financing for its buyout of pensions specialist service provider IGG.