Ashurst New York opened in January 2000.
The office provides a US base for the firm's worldwide clients,
giving them easy access to lawyers in our European and Asian
offices and providing more immediate "face to face" advice and
assistance on English and European matters during US hours. The
office enables Ashurst to build on our existing relationships and
to work closely with local law firms as required.
In March 2009 Ashurst expanded its offering to include US
structured finance and related matters. William Gray is head of the New
York office.
The office advises on a wide variety of structured products and
banking instruments including credit, equity and other derivatives,
distressed debt, municipal bonds (including gas prepay
transactions), tender option bond programs, liquidity facilities
and credit enhancement, structured lending, syndicated and
bilateral loan facilities, guarantees, letters of credit, funds,
CLOs/CDOs, general US securities advice, tax issues and
ERISA.