Norton Rose Fulbright
At Norton Rose Fulbright, the ‘responsive and knowledgeable’ finance team handles a considerable volume of acquisition finance work for its creditor-focused client base. Michael Black , who co-heads the team alongside energy and infrastructure finance expert Madhavi Gosavi , has broad knowledge across myriad finance products, including a market-leading ABL offering, which he regularly deploys as a key part of the finance package to facilitate large-scale cross-border acquisition finance deals. The firm’s emerging markets prowess also regularly elicits acquisition and event-driven finance mandates for commercial and development banks.
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‘The responsive and knowledgeable team provides excellent market insights.'
‘They get what you need and how you think and become an extension of the business while they support you. Also very good at converting technical legal language into commercial realities and consequences.’
'Neha Khosla is very practical, attentive and technically strong.'
Key clients
- ABN Amro
- Absa Bank
- Africa Finance Corporation
- African Development Bank
- Aurelius
- Bank of America
- Bank of China
- Bantry Bay
- Barclays Bank
- DBS
- Deutsche Bank
- DNB Bank
- EBRD
- Export Development Canada
- Goldman Sachs
- Hamburg Commercial Bank
- HCC International Insurance Company plc
- HSBC
- IFC
- ING Bank
- Japan International Cooperation Agency
- JP Morgan Chase Bank
- Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe
- Macquarie
- Mizuho
- MUFG Bank
- Natixis
- Natwest
- PNC, National Association
- Shell International Eastern Trading
- SMBC Bank
- Stanbic Uganda
- Standard Bank of South Africa
- Standard Chartered
- Swiss Re
- The Bank of East Asia
- Wells Fargo Capital Finance
- Alleima Treasury AB
- Aurelius
- Bausch Health Companies Inc.
- Chaucer Group
- Coca-Cola HBC Finance BV
- Countryside Partnerships Plc
- Dialight Plc
- Domino’s Pizza Group Plc
- ED&F Man Treasury Plc
- IMI Group Limited
- Mortgage Advice Bureau (Holdings) Plc
- Reach Plc
- RWS Holdings Plc
- Sandvik Treasury AB
- Titan Trust Bank Limited
Work highlights
- Advised Titan Trust Bank Limited on its acquisition finance facilities for the acquisition of NGX-listed Union Bank of Nigeria PLC. The debt facilities of $300m were provided by Afrexim as Lender, and disbursed under its Intra-African Investment Financing Facility.
- Advised Export Development Canada on the multi-currency acquisition financing facilities made available to Clearpier Acquisitions Corp, a subsidiary of Clearpier Inc., for the acquisitions of KPM Technologies Ltd, Cygobel Media Ltd, Hang My Ads, Lda and Pesto Harel Shemesh Ltd. (PubPlus).
- Advised Barclays Bank as arranger of a $500m asset-based lending facility to entities related to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC in relation to the acquisition of LABL Acquisition Corporation from Platinum Equity.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Madhavi Gosavi, Michael Black