The acquisition finance market has developed quickly in recent years, with financing structures requiring more bespoke and innovative design amid mounting pressure on borrowers and lenders to achieve the necessary return on their investment and the appropriate balance of risk allocation.
Skilled in working with all types of acquisition and leveraged finance products, we have represented lenders, funds and sponsors in the largest, most complex finance transactions and offer clients deal-specific strategic guidance and pragmatic advice.
We help our clients on a wide variety of event-driven financings of both public and private companies, leveraged buyouts and buy-ins, recapitalisations and other corporate lending transactions and regularly act for both lenders and borrowers (both corporate sponsor and fund), advisory and investment banks.
With the need to restructure deals more readily, act quickly and efficiently in often turbulent and highly competitive markets, we provide full service for senior unitranche, second-lien, mezzanine and PIK debt, bridge-to-bond financings, bank/bond financings, high-yield debt (TLBs), securitisation take-outs and debt buy-backs. We also have experience with cashflow-based term loan and revolving credit facilities, asset-based revolving credit facilities, NAV financings and reserve-based credit facilities.
We possess a full array of complementary debt-focused services, working closely with members of our corporate, bankruptcy and restructuring, securitisation, and investment management practices to provide guidance at every stage of the loan life cycle to lenders extending leveraged credit and sponsors/borrowers seeking credit. We also have strong relationships with many leading private equity firms, enabling us to be designated lenders’ and underwriters’ counsel in leveraged buyout financings and other transactions involving private equity-sponsored borrowers and issuers.
