Mayer Brown’s Asset‑Based Lending (ABL) practice relies on the firm's cross-border footprint, extensive representations of creditors across the credit spectrum, and top-tier trade and asset-backed finance capabilities to deliver quality results to both regulated and private lenders. The depth and breadth of our platform give us a structural advantage in the market and translates directly into exceptional client outcomes. In today's ABL landscape, these strengths are essential to structure, document, and execute complex transactions with confidence and to provide strategic advice through the entire life cycle of ABL transactions.

Integrated Solutions

We operate a fully integrated, international ABL practice and have deep experience representing both regulated and private lenders across the credit spectrum. Our lawyers understand the governing legal frameworks, local market practices, and commercial dynamics that drive these deals.

Our trade and asset‑backed finance teams are among the strongest in the market. Clients rely on us to deploy these complex structures and ensure they do not conflict with other financing arrangements. Because borrowers seeking ABL solutions often use—or soon need to integrate—these complicated capital structures, our seamless coverage across ABL, trade finance, and asset‑backed finance enables end‑to‑end support for lenders serving companies with needs that span product lines.

Our restructuring practice is similarly excellent across all segments of the market. When transactions encounter distress, clients benefit from a seasoned team adept at complex workouts, including those that are multi-jurisdictional in nature, and structuring complex rescue, debtor-in-possession, and exit financings and/or cash collateral arrangements. Importantly, the value of this team extends well beyond distress: by engaging our team early on in connection with intercreditor negotiations and sophisticated structures, we help clients build more resilient documentation that is better positioned in the event of distress or aggressive borrower or other lender tactics.