Kristen Roberts
Kristen is Managing Partner for Finance and Restructuring across the UK and EMEA. He focuses on corporate debt and acquisition finance as well as providing strategic treasury advice.
Kristen also leads our London corporate debt practice, advising listed and private corporates on their debt financing and treasury needs. He advises on a wide range of financing transactions and is highly experienced in acquisition and public bid finance. Kristen is recognised as a leading market practitioner who is at the cutting edge of corporate debt trends having developed our annual Corporate Debt Report, a unique research report on corporate debt trends, in collaboration with the Association of Corporate Treasurers."More broadly, Kristen's practice has expanded to reflect broadening corporate treasury roles. He advises extensively on covenant support arrangements provided to other stakeholders, for example in relation to pension covenant arrangements and supply chain financing.
Kristen has extensive experience in debt raisings across the loan and private placement markets in the UK, US and Europe, as well as trade finance, recourse and non-recourse receivables and borrowing-base financings and finance leasing. His deep knowledge of public bid finance regularly sees him appointed by bidders and the global investment banks to advise on the implementation of Takeover Code compliant bid financing arrangements. Kristen utilises his knowledge of the trends and opportunities in the debt markets to assist clients in optimising their debt capital structures and taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunities of raising debt across different products and markets.
In addition, Kristen works closely with our pensions and insurance practices applying leveraged finance techniques for the benefit of corporates, pension trustees, insurers and reinsurers in their transactions to insulate them from risk and marshal the interests of competing stakeholders.
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Selected matters
- Jet2 on the amendment, extension, and upsizing of its £500 million revolving credit facility
- Shaftesbury Capital Plc on its £150 million and £300 million revolving credit facilities and Covent Garden Real Estate Holdings Limited on its £300 million revolving credit facility
- Intertek Group on its US$850 million multicurrency revolving credit facilities and its £350 million revolving credit facility
- Severn Trent in connection with its syndicated and bilateral bank loan facilities (incorporating sustainability-linked features) for Severn Trent Plc and Severn Trent Water Limited and various bilateral and ancillary facilities of circa £1.5 billion
- Inchcape on its £700 million revolving credit facilities, and its £600 million bridge loan acquisition facility utilised for the acquisition of Derco
- easyJet on its US$1.75 billion facility supported by a guarantee from UKEF
- Weir Group on its US$800 million multicurrency revolving facility (including swingline facilities), its £300,000,000 term loan bridge facility and its A$1.35 billion bridge to bond acquisition facility
- Coca Cola Hellenic on its €2.5 billion certain funds acquisition and backstop refinancing facilities in connection with its acquisition of Coca- Cola Beverages Africa
- Bevco on its US$850 million revolving credit facilities
- Dyson in connection with several bilateral firm fund financings
- Johnson Matthey on its £1 billion syndicated revolving credit facility agreement including ESG principles
- Urenco Limited on its sustainability linked €500 million revolving credit facility
- PZ Cussons on its £325 million term loan and revolving credit facilities
- Dr Martens on its debut corporate £376.5 million term and revolving facilities agreement and its £5 million guarantee facility with Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., London Branch
- advising one of the "Big Four" accounting firms on the amendment and restatement of its revolving credit facility agreement, circa US$1 billion
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