Highly Regarded Leveraged Finance Partner to Join Latham in London
Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Hugh O’Sullivan will join the firm’s London office as a partner in the Banking Practice. O’Sullivan advises private equity sponsors, companies, funds, and financial institutions on a variety of complex, multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged finance, bridge finance, and restructurings.
“Hugh is another outstanding addition to our firm,” said Ed Barnett, Office Managing Partner of Latham’s London office. “Our market-leading finance team has been an important part of our success in London, with an unrivalled track record of advising financial institutions, private equity sponsors, direct lenders, and corporate borrowers on a diverse array of complex financings. Hugh’s mix of experience working over many years on cutting-edge sponsor-side deals aligns exceptionally well with our practice strengths. He brings a wealth of experience and client relationships, as well as an entrepreneurial spirit and drive for excellence, that have earned him a reputation as one of the City’s leading sponsor side leveraged finance partners.”
Highly regarded in his field, O’Sullivan regularly advises clients on high-value, complex leveraged finance and restructuring transactions across the full spectrum of multi-tiered capital structures, including unitranche, bank and bond/bridge, first and second lien, bank and mezzanine, and holdco PIK transactions.
“Latham’s preeminent global reputation is built on our unique ability to navigate all forms of loan, bond, and hybrid capital structures for any client, in any jurisdiction,” said Dan Seale, Global Chair of Latham’s Banking Practice. “Hugh’s phenomenal experience on large and mid-cap deals complements the firm’s existing global capabilities, and his arrival further strengthens our position as the leading global law firm for both sponsor- and lender-side work.”
“Our fully integrated team operates at the forefront of the market, drawing on unmatched capabilities in London and across the globe to advise clients across the capital structure and on all forms of financings,” added Kem Ihenacho, London-based partner and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. “Hugh is an accomplished lawyer whose talent and experience will further enhance our leveraged finance practice in London and our dominant and unique platform globally, and he will play an important role in helping us achieve our ambitious goals.”
O’Sullivan is the latest partner to join Latham’s market-leading London leveraged finance practice, following the arrival of Jonathan Brownson, Joydeep Choudhuri, Prue Criddle, and Danielle Brown last year. The firm’s leveraged finance team is recognized as one of the largest and most prominent in the City, with nearly 150 attorneys and over 40 partners. He joins the firm from Goodwin. He earned his LLB at the University of Birmingham before completing his LPC at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.