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Global Finance


Sidley’s Global Finance practice is comprised of lawyers who have pioneered the development of financial instruments for the world’s financial markets. Our team provides a comprehensive range of syndicated and leveraged finance, asset-based debt finance and structured finance legal services for clients and around the world. These transactions have involved issues unique to a broad range of industries and asset types, including energy, entertainment, healthcare, insurance, real estate, media, lottery awards and structured settlements.

Our team is highly attuned to the ever-changing international landscape, providing our clients with critical, real-time advice on transactions and issues arising out of the global financial market upheaval and the related governmental responses. The firm is consistently recognized as having one of the world’s leading finance practices by such well regarded publications as Chambers Global and Chambers USA. Sidley also ranks among the top U.S. capital markets firms in the Thomson Reuters league tables, both by deal value and by number of deals, with strong showings as both issuer and underwriter counsel in several major categories, including overall debt and equity, straight debt, asset-backed securities, investment-grade corporate debt and follow-on stock offerings.

Sidley’s reputation for innovation in the area of finance extends to Europe and the Asia Pacific region, with professionals qualified in U.S., Hong Kong, English, German and Japanese law. Our team advises originators, issuers, arrangers, trustees and agents in the key financial centers including, London, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney, as well as multinational clients from around the world. We also devote a significant amount of time and resources to understanding the impact of regulatory developments and the compliance hurdles imposed by new legislation and related regulations in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
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