Silvia Menendez is a partner in the Finance Group in our London office. She represents international private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a wide variety of transactions, with a focus on buyout and infrastructure financings. She advises clients across numerous industries, with notable experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Some of Silvia’s representative experience includes:
- EQT Infrastructure in:
- and its portfolio company Trescal, on its broadly syndicated €760 million term loan B facility to refinance its existing unitranche facilities
- the financing aspects of EQT and T-Mobile’s joint venture in fiber home internet provider Lumos
- the financing of its acquisition of Constellation Cold Logistics, a UK-based storage infrastructure service, from Arcus Infrastructure Partners
- the financing of its public acquisition offer and subsequent repricings of the Spanish leisure company, Parques Reunidos
- the financing of OX2, a fully integrated provider of renewable energy solutions
- the financing of its public acquisition offer of the Spanish leisure company, Parques Reunidos
- the financing of the combination of Nordic Ferry Infrastructure
- the financing of its portfolio company, Zelestra (formerly known as Solarpack), in its sustainability linked holdco financing and subsequent increases
- Deutsche Glasfaser and its shareholders, EQT Infrastructure and OMERS, in its €1.25 billion additional debt funding to support its fiber-to-the-home rollout.
- Zayo Europe and its shareholders, EQT Infrastructure and DigitalBridge, on the financing aspects of the carve out of the European business
- Apollo Global Management in the refinancing of its portfolio company Kem One
- The Lenders in the financing of Ocea Group’s platform financing
- SAUR, a leading French drinking and waste water management company on their revolving financing and issuance of “blue bonds”
- Cinven in:
- the financing aspects of its public acquisition offer for the provider of laboratory diagnostic services, SYNLAB AG
- the financing aspects of its acquisition of a majority stake in Amara NZero, a leading energy transition player
- Asterion Industrial Partners in the financing aspects of its acquisition of energy utility STEAG
- Eroski on its refinancing of senior debt, including the issuance of EUR€500 million senior secured bonds
- Middleground in its acquisition of UK-based professional motorsport company, Xtrac
- Bridgepoint in the refinancing of its portfolio company Dorna Sports
- Ardian in the financing aspects of its acquisition of Spanish fiber company Adamo
- Mizuho Bank and SMBC as arrangers and lenders in the approximately $390 million financing of the construction of a metro line in Peru, which included a working capital facility and a receivables-backed financing
- The underwriters with respect to a Rule 144A/Reg S project bond that will be used to refinance the Ruta 27 toll road in Costa Rica. This was the first time a Costa Rican entity operating an infrastructure asset issued project finance-style bonds, and the first time also that both bonds were issued simultaneously for a Costa Rican issuer
