Cahill Maintains Unique Market Leader Position With #1 Position in 2023 League Tables for Lender-Side Leveraged Loans & Underwriter HY Bonds
Date: 02/09/24
Cahill’s Capital Markets and Banking & Finance practices once again secured high ranks across a number of categories for the legal adviser league tables published by Debtwire, LSEG Loan Connector and Bloomberg for the full year 2023.
For the eighteenth straight year, Cahill was named the #1 legal adviser to U.S. high-yield bond underwriters by Bloomberg with a commanding 21.72% market share. For full year 2023, Debtwire also named Cahill the #1 legal adviser to managers of North American high-yield bonds with a 21.15% market share. In the leveraged lending arena, Cahill was named the #1 legal adviser to lead arrangers of leveraged loans with a 20.47% market share despite challenging market conditions, according to LSEG Loan Connector, a title the firm has continuously earned since 2010. Below are some performance highlights from the full year 2023 league tables.
Debtwire
- #1 legal adviser to North American High-Yield Bond managers, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to lead banks for North American Leveraged Loans, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to lead banks for North American M&A Leveraged Loans, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to lead banks for North American Buyout Leveraged Loans, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to lead banks for North American Institutional Loans, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to lead banks for North American M&A Institutional Loans, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to lead banks for North American Buyout Institutional Loans, by volume
- #1 legal adviser to managers for North American M&A High-Yield Bonds, by volume
- #2 legal adviser to lead banks for US Middle Market Private Equity Backed Loans, by volume
- #2 legal adviser to lead banks for Western Europe M&A Leveraged Loans, by volume
- #2 legal adviser to lead banks for Western Europe Buyout Leveraged Loans, by volume
- #2 legal adviser to managers for Western Europe France High-Yield Bonds, by volume
- #3 legal adviser to lead banks for US Middle Market Loans, by volume
- #3 legal adviser to borrowers for North American Buyout Leveraged Loans, by volume
- #3 legal adviser to borrowers for North American Buyout Institutional Loans, by volume
- #3 legal adviser to managers for North American Buyout High-Yield Bonds, by volume
- #4 legal adviser to managers for Western Europe Leveraged Buyouts High-Yield Bonds, by volume
- #5 legal adviser to borrowers for North American M&A Institutional Loans, by volume
- #5 legal adviser to lead banks for Western Europe Benelux Leveraged Loans, by volume
LSEG Loan Connector
- #1 legal adviser to lead arrangers of leveraged loans since 2010, by deal count and volume
- #1 legal adviser to all roles for total leveraged loan issuance, by deal count and volume
- #1 legal adviser to lenders across all types of loans, by deal count and #5 by volume
- #2 legal adviser to lenders for M&A loans, by deal count and volume
- #2 legal adviser to all roles for total M&A loan issuance, by volume and #3 by deal count
- #4 legal adviser to all roles for total loan issuance, by deal count and #5 by volume
Bloomberg
- #1 legal adviser to U.S. High-Yield Bond underwriters since 2005, by deal count and volume
- #1 legal adviser to U.S. Leveraged Loan lenders, by deal count and volume
- #1 legal adviser to managers and lenders in U.S. Leveraged Finance, by deal count and volume
- #1 legal adviser to U.S. Loan lenders, by deal count and #2 by volume
- #1 legal adviser to Global Loan lenders, by deal count and #2 by volume
- #5 legal adviser to U.S. Equity Linked underwriters, by deal count