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"Stephen is a highly commercial lawyer with whom I am pleased to have worked on many ground breaking transactions over the last ten years. He helped create many of the structures which are commonplace in European leveraged finance deals today"
M. Collins
Hutton Collins
Jane Gray
Background
Jane is a junior banking and finance adviser.
From a legal and languages background, having worked in both London and Paris as a banking solicitor, Jane has experience on a wide range of financing deals including bond issues and restructuring, derivatives, CDO's and leveraged finance.
Legal practice
Jane trained as a solicitor at Denton Wilde Sapte and qualified into their international and structured finance department three years ago.
More recently Jane has worked at Lovells, Paris in the international finance department. Jane assisted on high value multi-jurisdictional deals including a US$500,000,000 Secured Eurobond Programme listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and a £29,800,000 private placement bond repackaging. She has also worked on more straightforward assignment of loans, bond issues, medium term note programmes and euro-commercial paper programme.
Derivatives experience includes interest rate swaps and equity forwards.
Academics
- Currently studying at the Institute of Linguists, London, Diploma in Translation.
- Aix-Marseille University, Maîtrise in International and European Law
- Bordeaux University, Licence in French Law
- University of Kent at Canterbury, LL.B. (Hons) in English and French Law
News
New smwlaw website
Stephen has been working with an informal investor group.....
Stephen has been working with an informal investor group negotiating with the LMA to recast their standard recommended inter-creditor provisions to achieve a fairer balance between senior and subordinated classes of debt
Stephen advised mezzanine lenders in the ground breaking IMO valuation/scheme of arrangement case
