Patrick McDonald is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Banking Practice.

Patrick advises sponsors, corporate borrowers, financial institutions, and private credit funds across a broad range of finance transactions, including complex cross-border acquisition and leveraged financings, unitranche financings, PIK and Holdco financings, and other secured lending transactions.

Patrick's experience includes advising:

  • Various lender syndicates on senior secured facilities to a large American alternative investment management company*
  • A US sponsor on its first and second lien facilities to fund the acquisition of a global keg supply chain business*
  • A leading alternative investment fund on its unitranche financing to fund the acquisition of a global chemical and fluid products business*
  • A global investment company on its competitive bid process to arrange and underwrite c. $1 billion of senior debt facilities to a large US-based sponsor*
  • An Australian investment fund on unitranche facilities to an independent private equity firm to fund a corporate restructure and dividend recapitalization among certain of its portfolio companies*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • Victoria (Australia)

Education

  • LLB (Honours), Monash University
  • Bachelor of Arts in French Studies & International Politics, Monash University

Languages Spoken

  • English