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New York OfficeThree Bryant Park, 1095 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States of America 10036-6797
Jay R. Alicandri is co-chair of Dechert’s corporate and securities practice and one of the leaders of the firm’s permanent capital and private credit practice. He represents asset managers, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions in the private credit space, including Apollo, Bain, Barings, BC Partners, Blackstone, Blue Owl, Blue Torch, FS Investments, Golub Capital, Hercules, HPS, ING Capital, KKR, Main Street Capital, OFS Capital, Thoma Bravo and Varagon.
Mr. Alicandri is recognized as a leading lawyer for Banking & Finance by Chambers USA, a legal directory based on the opinions of clients and peers. In Chambers’ most recent edition, clients noted that Mr. Alicandri "excels at understanding the overall market and is a pleasure to work with" and that he’s "practical, commercially-minded and results-driven.” In previous editions, he was praised as "a great resource for unique challenges" who “is extremely well respected and a great thought partner" and “a standout partner” who “understands the underlying business [which] informs his advice regarding the credit facilities he works on behalf of asset manager/fund borrowers.” He is also consistently recommended for Commercial Lending in The Legal 500 US, where clients say he “knows all the individuals at the lending banks,” is “fantastic; very knowledgeable, commercial and easy to work with,” and that he is “a very facile leveraged finance lawyer who is appreciated by clients for his outstanding work ethic and strong command of legal as well as business facts.” In addition, he is regularly named a "Notable Practitioner" by IFLR1000 for Banking in the United States and New York.
Mr. Alicandri is also a thought leader and regularly speaks on a wide variety of topics related to asset finance, private credit and middle market lending.
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, B.A., 1995, magna cum laude
- St. John’s University School of Law, J.D., 1998, cum laude, member of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Journal
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- New York
- New Jersey