Ashurst LLP focuses on leveraged buyouts as well as corporate loans and refinancings and is frequently instructed by financial institutions, corporations, debt funds and private equity houses. Recent work includes the advice on growth and unitranche financing as well as syndicated financing. The latter areas are also key strengths of Anne Grewlich; she heads the German as well as the Global Loans and Global Markets team. Grewlich has additional expertise in national and international transactions under English and New York law, including mezzanine and high-yield structures as well as staple financing. At the end of 2023, Matthias Weissinger (acquisition and unitranche financing as well as corporate loans) left the firm to join McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP.
Key clients
- Diebold Nixdorf
- CVC
Work highlights
- Advising a group of financiers on the refinancing of various debt and the provision of $400 million of new capital for Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated.
- Advising a banking consortium consisting of UniCredit Bank AG, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Citibank Europe plc, Germany Branch and KfW (Venture Tech Growth Financing) on the financing of a transaction between Global Savings Group and Pepper.com as well as a comprehensive refinancing of the group.