Philip Butler Partner London | 160 Queen Victoria Street, London, UK EC4V 4QQ T +44 20 7184 7442 | F +44 20 7184 7001
[email protected] Services Global Finance > Leveraged Finance > Private Equity > Financial Services and Investment Management > Mergers and Acquisitions > Life Sciences > Philip Butler has more than two decades of experience structuring and negotiating a broad range of finance transactions. Mr. Butler advises domestic and international clients on the implementation of all elaborate debt structures and “is a leading mid-market leveraged finance practitioner” (The Legal 500 UK 2017). Mr. Butler regularly represents banks, corporates, funds, lenders, sponsors and syndicates on issues arising across an array of industries, including healthcare, life sciences, energy, manufacturing, financial services, leisure and information technology. Mr. Butler is routinely ranked as a leading practitioner (Chambers UK 2017) and is noted as being a "skilled and very technical banking lawyer". In the 2021 edition of Chambers UK, he is described as “an experienced adviser to both lenders and borrowers on domestic and cross- border financings”, who gives "a very strong performance on the financing side." In the 2019 edition of Chambers UK, he was ranked under band 2 for banking and finance, where clients note that "he has a very commercial bent, sticks to the key points and he is all about getting the job done efficiently". He has also been listed in Chambers Europe and Chambers Global, 2019, for banking and finance. Praised by peers and clients alike for being “enormously experienced and deeply knowledgeable,” and having the ability to "balance detail and understanding of complexity with commerciality", Mr.