Marcus J. Dougherty

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Dougherty’s practice focuses on representing banks and other financial institutions in senior lending transactions. He has over twenty-five years of experience in representing lenders in acquisition financings, including leveraged buyouts, tender offers and other going private transactions, recapitalizations, bridge and mezzanine financings, and DIP and exit facility financings. He has a broad range of financing experience in both US and international transactions and has been admitted to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong and New York. Recent cross-border financings on which he advised the financing sources include Medline, Signature Aviation, Inmarsat plc, Grifols, S.A., Nouryon (former AkzoNobel specialty chemicals division) and Atotech.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Dougherty is distinguished as a Market Leader for Banking, the highest recognition in IFLR1000’s Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, and he is ranked as a Leading Partner in Legal 500’s Finance: Commercial Lending rankings. Also consistently ranked as a leading lawyer for banking and finance in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, Mr. Dougherty has handled major transactions for financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Nomura, CIBC, Barclays Capital, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, HSBC and Royal Bank of Canada.

MergerLinks has also named Mr. Dougherty as a top ten US legal advisor in the publication’s Top Financing Lawyers in North America rankings.