Akin has significant traction among funds providing private capital financing solutions to distressed corporates, often working alongside the firm’s market-leading restructuring offering. Amy Kennedy is one of the main contacts for this special situations work (as is the ‘commercial-minded and responsive’ Mark Mansell) and she also has experience of advising on cutting-edge green and sustainability-linked financial products in the public and private debt markets. Other areas of note include Robert Aulsebrook’s emerging markets prowess.
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‘Mark Mansell is commercial minded and responsive.’
Key clients
- Bain Capital Special Situations
- Ad Hoc Group of Digicel Creditors
- Pharmakon Advisors
Work highlights
- Advised Bain Capital Special Situations on the investment it co-led with Pollen Street Capital in the merger between The Markerstudy Group and Atlanta Group – The Ardonagh Group’s personal lines broking business – to create a major new player in the UK insurance market.
- Advised funds managed by Pharmakon Advisors, LP, a leading investor in non-dilutive debt for the life sciences industry, on entering into a $275m debt facility with Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Advised an ad hoc group of Digicel creditors in relation to the consensual financial restructuring of Digicel Group Holdings Ltd, Digicel Ltd, Digicel International Finance Ltd and Digicel Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd with a deal value of $4.4bn in aggregate across the various transactions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Amy Kennedy