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Phil Cody

Arthur Cox

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Position: Partner, Capital Markets
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Ireland
England & Wales
Practice Areas:
Banking
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Structured finance and securitisation
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Banking
Financial services
Languages:
English
Biography

A partner in the firm’s Finance Group,  Phil Cody is based in New York, where he is the resident partner at the firm’s New York representative office. Phil advises on a broad range of finance and financial services matters.  His practice encompasses structured finance, debt capital markets, lending transactions (both lender and borrower), financial regulation and transactions involving investment funds. Phil is a trusted adviser to many of the leading Irish and international financial institutions on Irish law matters and is a go-to Irish counsel for foreign market participants and law firms.   In addition, Phil is the head of the firm’s derivatives and trading practice and regularly advices on derivatives, repos and securities lending matters and related netting, collateral and regulatory issues. 

Recent transactional highlights
  • James Hardie on its debut euro bond offering (EUR 400m). Phil advised on the Irish aspects of the successful bond issue. 
  • Allergan plc in respect of the issue by its subsidiary of EUR 1 bn fixed rate notes and EUR 700,000m Floating Rate Notes, arranged by Barclays, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley
  • Several sell-side institutions on structuring and documenting effective strategies to protect their business models for Brexit
  • Johnson Controls on various credit facilities and bond issuances since 2015
  • Advising Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec on its global covered bond programme 
Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • CLO/CDO
  • Covered bonds
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Hedge funds
  • Investment funds
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Real estate finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
Sector specialisations
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Financial services
  • Investment management
Bar admissions
  • Ireland
  • England and Wales
Association memberships
  • Law Society of Ireland
  • Institute of International Bankers (United States)
  • American Bar Association
  • International Fiscal Association Inc. (USA Branch)
  • European American Chamber of Commerce
Academic qualifications
  • LL B, Trinity College Dublin, 2002
Address:
Dublin
Tel:+1 212 782 3290 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.arthurcox.com/phil-cody/