Ms. Haller is a Managing Director in the Ares Credit Group and co-Head of the Frankfurt Office. She focuses on direct lending in DACH. Prior to joining Ares in 2009, Ms. Haller was an Associate in the Leveraged Finance team at Dresdner Kleinwort and prior to that Ms. Haller was an Assistant Manager in the Acquisition Finance team at Allied Irish Banks. Ms. Haller holds a B.Comm. first class honours, from University College Dublin in International Business

Marvin is a member of the firm's global transactions group and practises in the area of restructuring and insolvency.

Marvin advises corporates and lenders in the context of out-of court and in-court financial restructurings and refinancings. Marvin has a special focus on cross-border and multinational situations with complex capital structures including various types of financial instruments.

During his time at Freshfields, Marvin has been seconded to the Frankfurt and Chicago offices of a major investment bank and the London office of Freshfields.

Ekaterina (Katja) is Managing Director and Co-Head of Debt Advisory DACH at Rothschild & Co in Frankfurt. Katja has advised a large number of Private Equity, infrastructure investors as well as German and international corporate clients on debt structuring questions across a variety of different sectors and products. Katja has worked for Rothschild & Co for more than 18 years in Frankfurt and London (where she worked in the M&A healthcare team). Prior to Rothschild & Co Katja was with Leonardo & Co (today Houlihan Lokey). Katja holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Escuela de Administración de Empresas (E.A.E.), Spain and a bachelor in Finance from St.-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Russia.

Gary Simmons is the Managing Director of the AFME High Yield division, for which he leads AFME’s efforts to lower costs and increase efficiency in the execution of high-yield transactions, and lobbies for the reform of corporate insolvency laws. He also heads the AFME Prime Services division, which monitors business, legal and regulatory issues affecting the prime brokerage industry, and provides advocacy for member positions.

Gary is a New York-qualified lawyer and was previously a senior associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. After an initial period in New York, Gary spent several years in London, gaining extensive experience in cross border and emerging markets debt transactions, particularly high-yield bond issuances and leveraged loans.

Gary has a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law (with honors) and a Bachelor of Arts (with highest honors) from Rutgers University. Following law school, he was a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Walls of the United States Federal District Court, District of New Jersey.

Haden is a finance partner in our global transactions group with a particular emphasis on high yield bond offerings.

Haden has extensive experience advising private equity funds, corporations, investment banks and alternative capital investors on high yield bond offerings, committed leveraged finance transactions, liability management transactions and restructurings. Haden's practice also includes the representation of corporations in connection with complex cross-border corporate and securities law matters.

Prior to joining the firm Haden was a partner at a leading global law firm and worked for an extended period on secondment at a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm in its leveraged finance team.

Haden is recognized as a ranked lawyer for High Yield by Chambers and as a key lawyer for High Yield in Legal 500 UK.

Henning Block is European Co-Head of Restructuring and a Partner at Rothschild & Co, Germany. He represents companies, financials sponsors, creditors and other stakeholders across all sectors in large-cap and complex national and cross-border debt advisory, restructuring, and M&A situations. His areas of expertise include the raising of liquidity, debt and equity financing, special situations and distressed M&A, as well as balance sheet recapitalizations and restructurings. Henning has several years of international restructuring and M&A expertise, which he gained during his stays in New York and London.

Joachim Lubsczyk is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring in Munich. He brings 20 years of experience in corporate restructuring. He has worked with clients across a range of industries including manufacturing, telecommunication, energy, wholesales and automotive.
He supports companies in crisis situations, often involving complex, international refinancing transactions. His responsibilities in such situations include the development of business plans, liquidity management, negotiations with shareholders and lenders as well as interim management position as CFO or CRO.

Jonas is part of Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Debt Capital Markets team in Europe, based in Frankfurt. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Jonas was a Director in Credit Suisse’s European Financial Sponsors Group and responsible for financial sponsor coverage in Germany. He has over 10 years’ experience in leveraged finance including LBOs, acquisition financings, refinancings and restructurings. Previous professional experience includes M&A and leveraged finance roles in Frankfurt, Sydney and London at Nomura and Lehman Brothers.

Julia Frank is a Managing Director in the Loans & Leveraged Finance team at Citi. Based in Frankfurt, Julia is responsible for originating, structuring and distributing high yield bonds and syndicated loans for a wide range of European corporate and financial sponsor clients in the context of acquisition financing, leveraged buyout and refinancing transactions.

Before joining Citi in October 2023, Julia worked c.10 years in Credit Suisse’s Leveraged Finance team in London and Frankfurt. She started her career in 2010 in the Leveraged Finance team at Barclays in London.

Lindsay is a partner specialising in restructuring and insolvency.
Lindsay advises across the full spectrum of stakeholders and processes on both domestic and cross-border restructuring matters. Her experience includes acting across the capital structure for financial creditors, borrowers, sponsors and others on matters involving in-court and out-of-court restructurings, liability management transactions, intercreditor disputes, security enforcements, insolvency appointments and distressed M&A. Recent high-profile mandates include acting for the restructuring expert on McDermott’s Dutch WHOA, Bulb Energy on its response to the energy crisis, and creditors to various of the Intu group companies.
During her time at Freshfields, Lindsay has been seconded to work as a banking associate in the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey.
Lindsay is ranked in Chambers UK and was included in Global Restructuring Review’s 40 Under 40 2022 and The Lawyer’s Hot 100 for 2021. Lindsay sits on the ILA Council and is a member of IWIRC’s London Chapter.

Michael advises on banking and finance law with
a particular focus on syndicated loan transactions, acquisition and infrastructure finance. He is a member of the firm’s global financial sponsors group and global transactions team.
For 20 years, he has been regularly advising lenders, sponsors and borrowers on the full range of credit and debt financings. Based on his extensive experience, he provides deep understanding of complex issues and the rapidly changing components of financing. Numerous corporate clients, banks, funds and investors regularly rely on his advice for their most important acquisitions, financings and (re)structurings.

Patrick is a Director in the Leveraged Finance & Recovery team mainly responsible for transactions in the real estate, automotive & capital goods and TMT sectors. Until 2021, he covered a portfolio of companies in the Retail, Media and Leisure sector such as Metro, Bertelsmann, H&M, Springer Nature, Douglas or EG Group, for instance. He joined the Frankfurt office of S&P in 2016.

Prior to joining S&P, Patrick worked as a senior credit analyst with IKB Deutsche Industriebank for two years. He was responsible for the credit analysis of European high-yield corporate bond issuer. He also worked for Commerzbank in Frankfurt, where he was as a credit risk analyst in the retail and consumer sector for four years as well as a sovereign and country risk analyst.

He holds a diploma in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University, USA and is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Eglseer joined GIC’s Private Credit Group in 2021. He is responsible for originating, underwriting, executing and monitoring investments in the DACH region and globally. Prior to joining GIC, Mr. Eglseer was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Leverage Finance, where he originated and executed large-cap leveraged finance transactions for private equity sponsors and corporates across Europe, with a particular focus on the German speaking region. Prior to this position, he worked at Goldman Sachs’s European Leveraged Finance team. Mr. Eglseer is a graduate of University of Passau and Cass Business School. He is a CFA Charterholder and fluent in German (native), English and Spanish.

Simone is a US capital markets partner with extensive experience in international finance and capital markets transactions. She advises issuers, sponsors and underwriters on high-yield bond offerings, leveraged buy-outs, IPOs, debt restructurings and other corporate finance transactions in Europe and the US.

Simone came to Freshfields in London in 2011. Before joining the firm, she practised at Simpson Thacher in New York for 10 years.

Simone is the co-head of our Switzerland country group and speaks German, Spanish and French. She is recognized as a leading individual for capital markets by Chambers and Legal500.

Thomas Vaske is Head of Capital Markets at Bregal Unternehmerkapital. Before joining Bregal, he was Senior Vice President in Houlihan Lokey's Capital Markets team in London, Director at C2C Capital in London and Vice President in Corporate Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, New York and London, and holds the title of Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia as well as Diplom Kaufmann (FH).

Tobias has 25 years of private equity, financing and restructuring experience.

Previously with Rothschild as head of debt advisory and restructuring in Germany, former CEO a public listed SME investment holding and now with Birkenstein as local partner for Davidson Kempner, a USD 37bn asset manager with a focus on special situations.