About Sheel Patel

Sheel Patel is head of New York private credit at Mayer Brown and has over 15 years of experience working on complex commercial financing transactions. He represents private credit lenders on cutting-edge leveraged financing transactions, asset-based financing transactions, mezzanine lending, preferred equity investments, event-driven and opportunistic financing transactions, as well as special situations, workouts, restructurings, and insolvency matters. He leads high-profile leveraged finance matters for top credit funds and represents capital solutions/special situations-oriented direct lenders in mission-critical lending transactions. Sheel is also a leading commentator on private credit and special situations topics, having been quoted in publications such as Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Reuters.