Clients look to our market-leading Capital Solutions team to structure, advise and execute on a broad range of credit and hybrid capital transactions.
Davis Polk’s Capital Solutions practice advises direct lenders, private credit funds and other capital providers across a wide variety of financing transactions, from core lending arrangements to more complex situations requiring creativity, structuring sophistication and commercial judgment. As part of our broader Finance practice, the group focuses on lender-side and opportunistic transactions, including refinancings, hybrid capital solutions, junior capital investments, back-leverage facilities and other tailored credit and hybrid structures.
We help our clients structure, negotiate and execute across the full spectrum of credit and hybrid products, including unitranche, first-out/second-out, priming transactions, mezzanine and holdco debt, and hybrid capital instruments such as preferred stock, equity, warrants, convertible bonds and PIK notes. We also advise on more customized solutions tailored to the needs of a particular investment or financing opportunity.
Clients benefit from our seamless cross-practice platform, tapping into unparalleled expertise across our finance, structured finance & securitization and restructuring teams. We advise at every stage of a company’s lifecycle and across all market conditions, from growth financings and liquidity events to opportunistic credit transactions and distressed scenarios. Our team takes the time to understand each investor’s objectives and internal processes, so we can deliver advice that is practical, precise and tailored to what each client is trying to achieve.
