David Miles, Co-Head of Global Leveraged Finance, represents lenders, borrowers, sponsors and corporates on a full range of domestic and cross-border corporate lending and leveraged finance transactions. He has over 25 years' experience assisting leading UK and international clients in connection with large-scale private equity backed buyouts, public bids, corporate M&A, refinancings and recapitalizations.
Mr. Miles regularly advises lenders on all capital structure layers, including senior, second lien, unitranche, mezzanine and PIK and is well regarded for his involvement in the development of unitranche as a major funding source in the European leveraged finance market in recent years. Additionally, his experience includes advising corporate borrowers, funds, lenders and sponsors on complex acquisition financings, corporate lending transactions, and refinancings and restructurings of leveraged assets.
Mr. Miles also serves on the editorial board of THE CRED, Dechert's resource for private credit industry insights on legal and business trends.
Mr. Miles has been consistently ranked as a leading banking and finance lawyer in Chambers UK for 20 years, where he is currently top ranked. Sources quoted in Chambers UK 2025 said he is “an excellent communicator who's experienced with clear precise commercial intelligence”. Mr. Miles is further described as being “always robust and commercially acute” and “He is always very hands-on during a transaction” as well as being “knowledgeable, in the detail and a pleasure to work with.”
Mr. Miles is ranked in The Legal 500 UK 2025 as a ‘leading partner’ for acquisition finance, where sources have highlighted his “great depth of knowledge” and “ability to bring in resources and expertise from other areas of the firm as needed during the course of a transaction.”
Mr. Miles is additionally ranked as ‘highly regarded’ in IFLR1000 for banking.
Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Miles was a partner in the London office of another international law firm where he served as the head of the London debt practice group.
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- Exeter University, Law, (2:1)
- The College of Law, LPC, 1994, Commendation, Chester
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- England and Wales