Finance
Our global Finance Group is one of the most dynamic practices in the industry, advising borrowers, investors and lenders on every type of complex financing instrument in the market. Whether it’s debt financing, structured financing, direct lending, derivatives or hybrid capital, our partners are the foremost leaders in the cutting-edge, sophisticated structures and technology. With dedicated partners in the world’s most active financial markets, our extensive experience and global presence make us the firm of choice to handle innovative and complicated cross-border financing matters.
One of our core competitive advantages comes from our unmatched market intelligence. Our client base is comprised of the largest private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, Fortune 500 companies, investors and lenders across the globe, providing a diverse platform that allows us to set market terms and stay ahead of emerging trends. We are renowned for our ability to handle syndicated, leveraged financings and private credit arrangements.
Our work encompasses borrower and sponsor-side leveraged financings, award-winning securitizations and complex derivatives transactions across a broad array of structures, including:
- acquisitions
- bridge loans
- syndicated loan facilities
- private note placements
- margin loans
- refinancings
- recapitalizations
- restructurings
- hybrid capital financings
- direct lending facilities
- mezzanine, second-lien and holdco debt
- bank mergers and financial services regulation
- private credit
- amendments and refinancings
- asset-based financings
- whole-business securitizations
- operating assets (including franchise, entertainment, lease and IP)
- DIP securitization
- restructuring of prepetition indebtedness
- secured revenue note offerings
- commercial paper securitizations
- establishment of financing and origination platforms
- derivatives instruments
“They are top of the range for complex processes, with a lot of intricacies involved - you'd want that team on your side.”
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Recognition
Bloomberg Law: Top Firms Leading 2024’s Biggest PE Deals
- Banking & finance, securitizations and derivatives categories all highly ranked in Chambers USA, Chambers Global and Chambers UK
- Law360: 2024 Banking Group Of The Year, recognizing the firm’s significant transaction work in the industry
- Ranked as a top-tier firm by Legal 500 US & UK in numerous categories, including commercial lending, securitization and derivatives, with six lawyers earning top rankings
Recent Engagements
- Apollo Global Management and its affiliates in the financing aspects of numerous transactions, including:
- Citigroup Inc. and Apollo in an exclusive agreement for a subsidiary of Citi and certain affiliates of Apollo to form a landmark $25 billion private credit, direct lending program
- Apollo Global Management and its affiliates in their $8 billion acquisition of Credit Suisse’s assets from UBS
- in connection with an investment of $11 billion to acquire from Intel Corporation a 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related to Intel’s Fab 34, an Ireland-based semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility
- Ares Management in its debt and equity financing of Gamut Capital Management’s acquisition of Airtron Heating & Air Conditioning, a leading designer, installer and maintenance provider for HVAC systems, from NRG Energy
- Brookfield Asset Management in the financing aspects of its $775 million acquisition of Cyxtera, a data center and digital infrastructure provider, in connection with its chapter 11 case, and in the subsequent combination of Cyxtera with Evoque Data Center Solutions (n/k/a Centersquare)
- EP Group in the financing aspects of its public offer for the entire issued share capital in International Distribution Services, the parent company of the Royal Mail, one of the world’s oldest postal firms, and its sister business, GLS, an international parcels network, valuing the company at approximately £5.3 billion ($7.1 billion)
- EQT, OMERS and their portfolio company, Deutsche Glasfaser, the leading fibre broadband provider in rural and suburban Germany, in Deutsche Glasfaser’s procurement of €1.25 billion in additional debt funding to support its fibre-to-the-home rollout
- General Atlantic in the financing aspects of its participation in a €1.6 billion public tender offer for Esker SA
- Hg Capital and Leonard Green Partners, and their portfolio company IRIS Software, a leading global software provider of accounting, educational technology, HR and payroll solutions and one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, on the market-leading private credit-led £1.55bn refinancing of its existing senior facilities
- Insight Partners and its portfolio company Kaseya, an Ireland-based software company, in its $6.2 billion acquisition of Datto, a cybersecurity and data backup company, and its acquisition of BNG
- KKR in the financing aspects of its $1.6 billion acquisition of CIRCOR International, one of the world’s leading providers of mission-critical flow control products and services for the industrial and aerospace and defense markets
- KPS Capital Partners in the financing aspects of its €3.5 billion acquisition of Innomotics, a Germany-based global provider of mission-critical electric motor and drives and related customer services and solutions operating 16 factories globally, from Siemens
- L Catterton and its portfolio company Birkenstock Holding in its approximately €850 million refinancing of its existing credit facilities
- Roark Capital Group in the financing aspects of its $9.6 billion acquisition of Subway
- Stone Point Capital in the financing aspects of its $15.5 billion acquisition of Truist Insurance
- Strategic Value Partners in the financing aspects of its $1.125 billion acquisition of Revelyst
- Warburg Pincus in its $1 billion refinancing for its portfolio company Kestra Financial, a leading independent advisor platform
