Mr. McChesney has extensive experience in European leveraged finance and debt capital markets, with a focus on high yield acquisition finance and bond deals. He has represented issuers, sponsors and underwriters/lenders. He has also represented clients with respect to investment grade offerings, restructurings, debt tender/consent solicitations, equity offerings, private placements, medium-term note programs, acquisitions and hybrid securities offerings.

Mr. McChesney is a frequent panelist at European leveraged finance conferences and is cited as a leading lawyer in the most recent editions of Chambers Global, The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the UK Legal Profession and Chambers Europe, Europe’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is also recognised by PLC Which Lawyer as a leader in ‘Capital markets: high-yield products’ and ‘Capital markets: cross-border advice’ in England.

• Nokia in its debut U.S. investment grade, U.S. registered bond deal
• RBS and UBS as dealer managers in respect of RBS’ self tenders for $8.1 billion of its core capital securities
• J.P. Morgan as underwriter of a U.S. registered bond issue by Novartis A.G.
• J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs in high yield bridge finance for acquisition of Alexander Forbes, a South African financial services business
• Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank in €362 million high yield PIK loan refinancing of Cognis, a German chemicals company
• Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in €1.6 billion high yield bond and covenant-lite loan refinancing of Cognis, a German chemicals company (included a consent solicitation in respect of certain existing high yield debt of Cognis)
• Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas in high yield financing for acquisition of Invitel, a Hungarian cable operator, by HTCC, another Hungarian cable operator

• “A Practitioner’s Guide to European Leveraged Finance”, High Yield Debt, Chapter 5, City & Financial Publishing, 2009