Gavin McLean is an English qualified capital markets partner resident in the Firm’s London office. During his career Gavin has worked on and represented arrangers, corporate issuers and sovereigns in a wide variety of capital markets transactions including MTNs, repackaging programmes, convertible and exchange bonds, securitisations, restructurings and other liability management exercises.

Gavin is currently representing BNP Paribas in relation to a structured drawdown from an existing repackaging programme. Gavin has also represented Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and JP Morgan in relation to the establishment and/or drawdown of issues from programmes involving a wide range of assets and a number of different structures.

Over the last 2 years Gavin has represented the Republic of Senegal in their debut Eurobond, JP Morgan as Dealer Manager in an exchange offer for the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and the Steering Committee of the Private Creditor Investor Committee for the Hellenic Republic.

Gavin has also been actively involved with a number of industry initiatives in relation to the European regulatory securitisation reforms and has advised a number of financial institutions on the amendments to the Capital Requirements Directive. Most recently Gavin has been advising European investment banks on portfolio loan transactions and the restructuring of securitisations.

Gavin has represented a number of financial institutions including Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Calyon, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Lloyds TSB, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and Société Générale.

Gavin is recognized as a securitisation expert in Legal Experts 2011, as a leading individual for structured finance in Chambers 2012 and for the Legal 500 2012.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1996

Education
DEA, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1994
LLB, University of Victoria, Wellington, 1991

Languages
English
French

Citizenship
New Zealand
France