Find people & offices

Experience and career history

Jay Gavigan represents lenders and borrowers in domestic and international financing transactions.  He has experience in transactions in all major international markets and has practiced in Clifford Chance's European and Asian offices though currently focuses on the Americas.

Jay has experience with a wide range of financing transactions including acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, asset finance, syndicated credits, real estate finance and workouts.

In the acquisition finance space, he has represented commercial and investment banks and private equity sponsors in leveraged buyouts, going private transactions, leveraged recapitalizations and strategic acquisitions.  His experience in this area includes capital raising in Europe and the United States and acquisitions in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Jay represents commercial banks, agencies, operators and investors in offshore oil and gas transactions, principally in the Americas.  This practice includes acquisitions, refinancings, construction, workouts, transportation and credit enhancement transactions and includes debt capital markets transactions (project bonds) and combined bank/bond transactions.

He also represents private real estate and infrastructure funds and lenders to those funds, public REITS as borrowers, US homebuilders as borrowers and lenders to homebuilders in Latin American jurisdictions.

Jay has substantial experience in U.S. and cross-border leasing transactions, U.S. and international capital markets transactions and derivatives transactions including credit-default swap related financing transactions.

Michigan State University Honors College (BS, Phi Beta Kappa) 1991
Northwestern University School of Law (JD, cum laude) 1994
Admitted as an attorney in New York 1995
Joined Clifford Chance 1994
Partner since 2004