Head of European Leveraged Finance, Taner Hassan advises on a broad range of financings across Europe, including buyout and infrastructure financings. Taner acts for international and domestic private equity firms, financial sponsors and public companies on a wide range of financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and sales, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, IPOs, restructurings and refinancings. He also advises portfolio companies on a wide variety of important financing matters, and brings particular experience in the infrastructure, energy, health care and technology sectors. He also advises on sustainability-linked finance transactions.
Taner has handled many of the market’s most significant international and domestic financing deals, including involving Europe, the United States, Asia and emerging markets. Clients interviewed by Chambers UK noted that Taner is “extremely commercial,” “highly experienced and has great rapport with his clients,” and is able to “explain the key commercial points in a distinctive manner that allows us to find solutions quickly.” Taner is a Leading Individual for Acquisition Finance in The Legal 500 UK (2026), and is recognized for his work in Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans.
Taner’s notable representations include:
- ICG’s management, in the financing for the €1.21 billion buyout to take the Irish Continental Group private
- Cinven in:
- the financing of its acquisition of a majority stake of Restaurant Brands Iberia, one of the largest transaction in the Spanish restaurant industry
- its acquisition of Barentz, a global specialty ingredients distributor, and its subsequent financing of the acquisition of the Maroon Group
- alongside GIC in the joint acquisition of Miller, a leading specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, from Willis Towers Watson
- EQT Equity:
- in the financing of its acquisition of Adevinta’s Spanish online classifieds business
- in the financing of its acquisition of Acronis, leading cybersecurity and data protection platform
- in the financing of its acquisition of SPT Labtech, manufacturer of instruments for life sciences research
- in the financing of its acquisition of 3Shape, market leading provider of scanners and software for the dental industry
- in the financing of its acquisition of Parcel2Go, parcel delivery marketplace and e-commerce shipping platform
- EQT Infrastructure:
- alongside its portfolio company InstaVolt, a leading owner and operator of rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across the UK, on InstaVolt’s £250 million financing
- in the financing of its acquisition of Arlanda Express, the operator of high-speed passenger rail service connecting Stockholm Central Station with Sweden's largest airport, Arlanda Airport
- its portfolio company, OX2 AB on the EUR 450 million delayed draw term loan Holdco financing
- in the financing for Lumos including its $1.1 billion sustainability-linked infrastructure debt financing, the first project finance-style fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure financing in the US for an existing and integrated FTTH platform, and the first US FTTH sustainability-linked financing
- its acquisition of Constellation Cold Logistics, a UK-based storage infrastructure service, from Arcus Infrastructure Partners
- alongside its portfolio company Deutsche Glasfaser, the leading fiber broadband provider in rural and suburban Germany, in Deutsche Glasfaser’s procurement of €1.25 billion in additional debt funding to support its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout and its subsequent refinancing of the Deutsche Glasfaser fibre business
- the financing of its acquisition of a majority stake in SK Shieldus, a leading South Korean integrated security operator
- the financing of its acquisition of Parques Reunidos, a global theme park business and on the repricing of its €890 million term loan B facility
- the financing of its acquisition of Trescal, a global leader in calibration laboratories, from OMERS and on its inaugural broadly syndicated €760 million term loan B facility to refinance its existing unitranche facilities and its subsequent repricing
- the financing and its sale of DELTA Fiber, a leading owner and operator of fiber-to-the-home telecom infrastructure in the Netherlands, to a consortium including Stonepeak
- the financing for Nordic Ferry Infrastructure, the leading private passenger and freight sea transportation company in the Nordic region
- I Squared and its portfolio company CubeCold, a leading pan-European provider of cold storage and full-service temperature-controlled logistics, on its new infrastructure financing
- Azelis, a leading global innovation service provider for the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry in the company’s €1.8 billion IPO, the third largest IPO ever on Euronext Brussels
- BlackRock Long Term Private Capital on its sale of the Heywood Group to Pollen Street Capital and its portfolio company Keylane
- Eroski in its refinancing of senior debt, including the issuance of €500 million senior secured bonds
- SAUR, a leading French drinking and waste water management company on their revolving financing and issuance of “Blue Bonds”
- Zayo Europe, provider of fiber communications and bandwidth infrastructure in relation to their European financing
- Zelestra, a Spanish solar developer and independent power producer, in its sustainability-linked financing facility
- lenders to Ocea Group, on the infrastructure platform refinancing for its existing term and capex loans
