London, January 23, 2023 – Proskauer, a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that partner Alex Griffith has been named to The Lawyer’s Hot 100.
Alex’s practice focuses on private credit and general debt finance work, advising senior, mezzanine, second lien, unitranche and other private capital providers. His extensive experience covers a wide range of transactions, including corporate refinancings, management buyouts and buy-ins, recapitalizations, institutional acquisitions, restructurings, public-to-private takeovers (both domestic and international), and other innovative, first-in-kind transactions involving private sources of capital.
The annual Hot 100 list celebrates talent from across the legal industry and gathers together exceptional individuals, renowned for their expertise, who have gone above and beyond. The publication tracks lawyers year-round, and from an extensive shortlist, whittles down the top 100 who are ambassadors for the profession.
Alex is counsel to some of the largest asset managers and is especially noted for his work with Ares Management Corporation. Alex has advised Ares on the provision of committed financing to a private equity consortium for the circa £1.6 billion takeover offer for the financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor and advised on the largest ever unitranche financing (at the time), representing in aggregate £1.875 billion commitment to The Ardonagh Group, the UK’s largest independent insurance broker, through Ares’ direct lending platform.
Alex has also advised Ares on a number of sports related deals for its Sports Media and Entertainment fund. These have included financings to leading sports franchises in Formula 1, international rugby and international football. Recently he was advising on the financing of Eagle Football Holdings Bidco Limited’s acquisition of a significant controlling stake in French Ligue 1 football club, Olympique Lyonnais Groupe SA ("OL").
Alex is a key member of Proskauer’s Private Credit Team. The Firm’s Private Credit Group is made up of cross-disciplinary finance and restructuring experts exclusively dedicated to private credit investors. It includes over 90 finance and restructuring lawyers focused on representing credit funds, business development companies, and other direct lending funds in the restructuring of “clubbed” and syndicated credits, preferred equity, special situations and alternative investments. Over the past five years, Proskauer has been involved in more than 1,000 deals for over 75 private credit clients across the United States and Europe with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $250 billion.
Read Alex’s Hot 100 profile here.
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