Baker McKenzie
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Drawing on deep knowledge across the spectrum of English and New York law-governed loans and bonds, including TLB, direct lending (both unitranche and US private placements) and high-yield bonds, Baker McKenzie‘s ’highly engaged’ team is well-positioned to represent lenders and borrowers across a range of cross-border leveraged finance deals. Although the firm was weakened somewhat on the direct lending front following Matthew Smith‘s departure in April 2022 to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, this was offset by the arrival in March 2023 from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP of Anthony Kay, whose broad leveraged finance practice includes some credit fund work. Ben Wilkinson is particularly effective at advising investment banks on cross-border acquisition finance deals with complex capital structures and has significant experience in transactions with a Nordic and German complexion. On the borrower front, Nick O’Grady is ’an extremely competent acquisition finance lawyer’, as is the ‘extensively experienced’ Matthew Cox , who co-heads the team alongside Wilkinson.
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‘The team is highly engaged and committed to projects but also good humoured and a great interface to work with, even when facing challenges on a deal.'
- 'Nick O'Grady is an extremely competent acquisition finance lawyer. He is safe pair of hands who can be trusted to take care of everything but also knows which key points to raise with the sponsor for their input and sign-off on.'
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Key clients
- Bain Capital
- FSN Capital
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Work highlights
- Advised Nordic sponsor FSN Capital Partners in connection with the partial refinancing of the €650m senior debt TLB debt financing used for FSN's acquisition of Optigroup, Hygas and affiliates TPC and BFG (i.e. four acquisitions packaged into one), by way of the establishment of a new €200m second lien facility, provided by a single private credit fund, which refinanced some of the TLB.
- Advised Keensight Capital on the financing to facilitate its acquisition of Bedford Consultancy.
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