Milbank LLP’s Structured Credit team has been ranked as the #1 CLO Manager counsel globally and as the #1 CLO Manager counsel in the United States in Creditflux’s 2021 year-end Advisory Firm Rankings. For the last five years, Milbank has remained at the top of the publication’s global rankings and for the last four years, the firm has remained at the top of the US rankings. Milbank has also been ranked by Creditflux as the #2 CLO Manager Counsel in Europe for 2021. The publication’s league table rankings show that Milbank’s global structured credit team worked on 280 CLO issuances in 2021 valued at approximately US$131 billion. This is in addition to Milbank’s significant representation of arrangers and anchor investors on CLOs.
Milbank’s world’s leading structured credit practice includes Structured Finance partners Sean M. Solis, Jay Grushkin and Brian Troxler in the United States, and John Goldfinch and James Warbey in London, together with a team of special counsel and associates across offices. Positioned at the forefront of structured finance since the inception of CLOs, Milbank’s global structured credit team represents market-leading collateral managers, arrangers, issuers, risk retention lenders, anchor investors and derivatives counterparties on a multitude of structured finance transactions involving a diverse array of asset classes, including broadly syndicated loans, middle market loans, aircraft finance loans, real estate loans, infrastructure loans, sovereign loans, private fund investments and consumer loans.
In addition to being recognized by Creditflux, the firm was named #1 Issuer Counsel for US CLOs by Asset-Backed Alert in the publication’s 2021 year-end rankings. In 2021 and 2019, Mr. Solis was selected as Lexology’s Client Choice Award winner for Securitization and Structured Finance in New York. The practice and individual partners are also highly ranked in structured finance and securitization by Chambers, Legal500 and IFLR1000.
Mr. Solis commented: “Our team is honored to have worked alongside the most sophisticated clients in the industry, successfully guiding them through extraordinary credit market conditions that persisted around the world throughout 2021. The team is incredibly grateful to have earned the enduring trust of such incredibly talented individuals and global teams and are very much looking forward another exciting year in 2022.”
Mr. Grushkin stated: “Being recognized as the top Manager Counsel once again by both Creditflux and Asset-Backed Alert reflects our global team’s commitment to client service. We continue to appreciate the trust each of our clients have placed in us and we remain dedicated to always providing the highest level of service.”
