The acquisition and leveraged finance market has developed quickly in recent years, with financial structures requiring more unusual design with ever more pressures on borrowers and lenders to achieve the necessary return on their investment.
Through knowledge of financial products and the market in which our clients work we help them develop such structures, understanding the constraints and aspirations that impact the decision making process.
We help our clients on a wide variety of acquisition financings of both public and private companies, leveraged buy-outs and buy-ins, recapitalisations and other corporate lending transactions and regularly act for both lenders and borrowers (both corporate sponsor and fund), advisory and investment banks.
With the need to restructure deals more readily, act quickly and efficiently in often turbulent markets, we provide full service for senior unitranche, second-lien, mezzanine and PIK debt, bridge-to-bond financings, bank/bond financings, high-yield debt, securitisation take-outs and debt buy-backs.
Recent Experience
Morrison & Co
on the financing of the acquisition of QScan Group
Crescent Capital Partners
Advising them:
- on the financing for the acquisition of PRP radiology group
- the recapitalisation of Nucleus Network; and
- the financing of the acquisition of Healthcare Australia
Bain Capital
Advising on its $3.5 billion of Virgin Australia Group by way of a deed of company arrangement and all related financing arrangements
Crédit Agricole and UniCredit
Advising on the £452 million bridge term loan for the financing of Steinhoff International's public bid for Poundland Group plc.
Crédit Agricole, HSBC, Mizuho and Société Générale
Advising in relation to the senior debt facilities for Carlyle's acquisition of the Cupa Group.
Citi and HSBC
Advising as mandated lead arrangers of the £920 million multicurrency bridge loan for the financing of the public to private acquisition of Darty plc by Steinhoff International Holdings N.V.
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