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Paula-Marie (Polly) O’Brien

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Member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Focuses on bespoke financing transactions, with particular emphasis on specialty finance, litigation finance and fund finance.

Polly has experience acting for hedge funds, private equity funds, litigation funders, specialty finance companies and investment banks in a wide range of opportunistic financings spanning the spectrum of debt and equity.

She works closely with the firm’s Investment Management team on liquidity solutions for investment funds and their managers and is a member of the firm’s multidisciplinary, cross-border litigation finance team.

Auszeichnungen


  • Legal 500 UK, Recommended, 2025-2026

Qualifikation


Education
Nottingham Law School, Legal Practice Course
Nottingham Law School, Graduate Diploma in Law
University of Cambridge, MA

Admissions
England and Wales

Prior Experience
Jones Day
Louis Dreyfus Commodities
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer