People
Greg Brown
Biography
Greg has over 25 years’ experience of advising major international lenders and corporates on loan finance transactions.
He is widely recognised as a leading practitioner in the London loan markets. Greg is an expert in a wide range of debt financing practice areas, including corporate lending (particularly acquisition finance and other event-driven transactions), sustainable finance, fund finance and trade and commodity finance. Greg has been involved in structuring sustainable and other impact investments for over a decade, acting both for borrowers and funders in that sector. In recent years Greg has been heavily involved in market developments concerning green and sustainability-linked loan financings, which have now become a well-established and increasingly standard feature in the syndicated loan market.
Practice areas
- Finance
- Leveraged finance
- Microfinance and social investment
- Investment grade debt
- Sustainable finance
- Trade, commodity and export credit finance
- Global loans and structured debt solutions
- Leveraged finance and high yield
- Fund finance
Sectors
- Financial institutions
- Banks
- Sports
Selected experience
- The arrangers of a £2,500,000,000 loan facility for Tesco plc, one of the world’s first syndicated RFR facilities. This deal was awarded ‘Loan Deal of the Year 2021’ by IFLR.
- The arrangers of a US$17,500,000,000 bridge loan facility for AstraZeneca plc relating to their acquisition of Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
- The arrangers of a bridge loan facility to support Werfen’s acquisition of Immucor, Inc..
- The arrangers of a €20,150,000,000 bridge loan facility to Vonovia SE in relation to its acquisition of Deutsche Wohnen.
- Various financings for BAe Systems, Man Group, Moonpig, Pennon, Sage Group and other significant corporates.
Education
- BA, Jurisprudence, Oxford University, 1993
Admissions
- England and Wales, 1997
Languages
- English
