How to navigate debt capital markets

The Law Hero Debt Capital Markets Playbook
Understand the deal behind the documents.
Starting a debt capital markets seat can feel like joining a conversation halfway through. There’s a prospectus to review, a closing checklist to update and a stream of emails about documents you’re still trying to place.
This playbook helps you connect the pieces.
Designed for trainees and junior lawyers, it explains why clients raise money through the capital markets, how the main documents work together and what your contribution looks like in practice.
Through fictional transactions, colourful diagrams, clause clinics and worked exercises, you’ll learn how to:
Follow the money and distinguish the amount borrowed from the cash actually received.
Understand the parties, their roles and what each client needs from the transaction.
Read key provisions with their commercial purpose in mind.
Spot inconsistencies across documents and turn questions into useful review comments.
Track closing requirements, evidence and outstanding actions.
Distinguish signing, release and settlement, and write clearer status updates.
The 68-page illustrated ebook includes Irish practice signposts, worked answers and practical examples that take you from the client’s objective through to closing. Six editable tools help you organise your thinking, including a deal map, evidence tracker, consistency matrix and signing and handover checklist.
Whether you’re preparing for your first DCM seat or trying to make sense of a transaction already underway, this is a practical companion you can return to as the work develops.
Open the documents with a clearer picture of the deal, better questions and a stronger sense of what to do next.