With 13 full-time private placement practitioners, GT includes one of the largest groups of attorneys in a single law firm engaged on a full-time basis in the practice of institutional private placements. For almost three decades, members of GT’s Private Placement Practice have represented UK, U.S., Canadian, Australian and European life insurance companies, pension funds and other institutional investors on transactions spanning across the entire spectrum of deal types, ranging from traditional secured and unsecured note issuances, to structured and project finance in every major industry sector and we are regarded as one of the top law firms representing institutional investors in the global private placement market.

A significant part of our practice includes cross border institutional private placement transactions involving issuers and guarantors domiciled in numerous foreign jurisdictions, including, Germany, The Netherlands, England, Australia, Ireland, Canada, France, Finland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Malta, Greece, Hong Kong, Japan, Luxembourg, Scotland, Chile, Mexico and India. Our international presence enables us to provide effective and efficient service and work product and gives us the ability to analyze and consider all relevant local law issues, customs and practices for our clients (with the entire resources of GT being available to financing transactions in connection with the delivery of our legal services).

In addition, when credits are challenged, GT’s Restructuring & Bankruptcy group works closely with the private placement team and is adept at understanding clients’ goals and pursuing them through the most complex of situations, while anticipating and navigating the interests of competing constituencies along the way. Well-known and respected for representations of noteholders and lenders, the team is trusted to help clients maximize recovery in the most difficult, unique, or sensitive of situations.