Shearman & Sterling adds three partners to leveraged finance practice

By Susanna Moon

Chicago, Feb. 21 - Shearman & Sterling said it expanded its leveraged finance practice with the addition of three partners.

The new partners, Ronan Wicks, Patrick Flanagan and Jason White, all were formerly partners with Orrick, according to a company press release.

Wicks was the global co-head of his previous firm's banking and debt capital markets group, having launched that group with Flanagan and White, and is the senior member of this lateral team. He has advised major financial institutions on high-profile leveraged and investment-grade acquisition financings and restructurings. Wicks also has advised debt funds in distress situations and has also advised financing clients in leveraged deals in the telecommunications and media, manufacturing, technology, and sports and entertainment industries.

Flanagan represents large financial institutions involved in domestic and international leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings, second-lien financings, mezzanine financings, asset-based facilities, recapitalizations, workouts and working capital facilities. He spent four years in Hong Kong as head of Latham & Watkins' Asia leveraged finance practice, and he also worked at Goldman Sachs in the legal and loan negotiation groups.

White advises clients on leveraged and high-grade debt finance, restructuring and investments related to special situations, and he has significant experience in international, regulated and complex acquisition and divestiture financing transactions, the press release noted.

White previously was the Americas head of the finance legal practice at Barclays, also overseeing bank regulatory matters regarding non-banking activities as well as transactions compliance and financial insolvency. Prior to joining Barclays, he was with Cadwalader, where he focused on leveraged finance and restructuring.

The firm recently added finance partner Gus Atiyah in Washington, D.C. Atiyah had been a partner at Fried Frank, where he advised private equity and debt funds, corporations and financial institutions in a wide range of industries, as well as general counsel at National Bank of Kuwait.

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