Fried Frank Expands International Finance Practice with New Partner Mark Wesseldine to Join Firm in London

Fried Frank Expands International Finance Practice with New Partner Mark
Wesseldine to Join Firm in London

LONDON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Fried Frank announced today that Mark
Wesseldine will join the Firm's finance practice as a partner and will be
based in London. Mark specializes in leveraged finance transactions with
broad experience in all financing disciplines. He was previously a partner at
Allen & Overy.

Mark has extensive experience in leveraged acquisitions and other event driven
financings. His practice includes advising lenders, investors and borrowers,
including major financial institutions, financial sponsors and corporate
entities, on a wide range of multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts and other
complex financing and restructuring transactions.

"We are delighted to have someone of Mark's caliber join the Firm as we
continue to extend the depth of our global finance practice. He has worked on
some of the largest and most high profile leveraged transactions in the
European market," said Valerie Ford Jacob, Fried Frank's Chairperson.

"Mark brings his experience and expertise to a strong team who have been
working on some of the most innovative and prominent transactions in the
market, including advising on the largest European high yield transaction this
year and the first 'amend and extend' bank amendments in Europe," added
Managing Partner, Justin Spendlove.

Fried Frank's financing practice stands out because of its presence at all
levels of the capital structure, working on some of the most sophisticated
and complex deals on behalf of lead managers, arrangers and private equity
sponsors. Clients include blue-chip corporations, financial institutions and
private equity funds on a wide array of transactions, including merger and
acquisition, mezzanine, and leveraged financing.

"As a result of the recent disruption to the financial markets, it is
increasingly important for law firms to understand the debt market on both
sides of the Atlantic and are able to apply this knowledge to transactions.
Mark's appointment is a key part of our commitment to building our
international practice," said Fried Frank's Head of Finance, Bill Reindel.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is a leading international law
firm with more than 500 attorneys in offices in New York, Washington, D.C.,
London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Fried Frank lawyers
regularly represent many of the world's leading corporations and financial
institutions. The Firm offers legal counsel on antitrust and competition;
bankruptcy and restructuring; benefits and compensation; corporate matters,
including asset management, capital markets, corporate governance, financings,
mergers and acquisitions, and private acquisitions and private equity; energy,
alternative energy and climate change; financial institutions; government
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defense; insurance; intellectual property and technology; international trade;
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commercial litigation, environmental litigation, government contracts,
securities and shareholder litigation; real estate; tax; and trusts and
estates. The Firm has an association with Huen Wong & Co. in Hong Kong. More
information on Fried Frank can be found at www.friedfrank.com.

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