Milbank LLP’s Structured Credit team has been named #1 Issuer Counsel for US CLOs by Asset-Backed Alert in the publication’s 2021 year-end rankings. The firm was credited for working on 108 qualifying deals. This is in addition to the firm’s representation of managers on CLOs that are privately placed, refinanced or reset, which are not credited, and our significant representation of arrangers and anchor investors on CLOs. As further evidence of the team’s commitment to client service, Milbank was also ranked as the #1 Manager Counsel globally and in the United States in Creditflux’s year-end 2021 Legal Advisory rankings, and partner Sean M. Solis was named by Lexology as the Client Choice Award winner for Securitization and Structured Finance in New York in 2021 and 2019.
Milbank’s Structured Credit practice reflects a unique combination of success in both the US and European CLO markets. The breadth of our client base gives us a unique perspective on the differing approaches of market players that enables us to make our documents state of the art, while maintaining efficiency and economy in our work product.
Milbank’s leading structured credit practice includes Structured Credit 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.
