Our banking experience

Our recent banking experience includes advising:

  • Apax, Goldman Sachs PIA and Providence Equity Partners on its €2.6bn TMT facilities for the acquisition of Kabel Deutschland;
  • Apax on its €1.5bn facilities for the acquisition of Travelex, the world’s largest foreign exchange specialist;
  • Apollo on its €1.6bn facilities for the acquisition of ish;
  • Baroness Retail Consortium (CVC Capital, Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and Texas Pacific Group) on £691m senior, £300m mezzanine and £355m property facilities to finance its bid for Debenhams and subsequent refinancing;
  • Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank AG on the €173m, £97.7m and $93m facilities related to the acquisition of assets and shares in certain members of the Legoland group of companies and the acquisition of the Merlin group of companies by Blackstone;
  • BNP Paribas, Crédit Lyonnais, Crédit Agricole Indosuez, Société Générale, HSBC-CCF and CIC, as lead banks on the debt restructuring of Alstom;
  • Calyon and Morgan Stanley on a €7.9bn debt facility for Suez, to part-fund its €11.0bn cash-and-share offer for the 49.9 per cent minority stake in Belgian utility Electrabel;
  • Cinven on its £332m facilities for the public to private acquisition of Fitness First and subsequent refinancing;
  • Cinven on the €4.5bn facilities for the buy-out of Amadeus, the world’s largest travel bookings company;
  • Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank on the $1.1bn facilities for the acquisition of Sola by Carl Zeiss and EQT;
  • Credit Suisse First Boston, Halifax Bank of Scotland and Lehman Brothers on the £3.5bn loan facilities provided to finance Capital Management and Investment’s bid for Six Continents;
  • Gas Natural on its €22.6bn takeover of Endesa, Spain’s leading electricity company;
  • Goldman Sachs on the £775m leveraged acquisition financing for Four Seasons Healthcare and its subsequent refinancing;
  • Goldman Sachs International and Dresdner Bank on the $3bn financing for BAE Systems’ acquisition of United Defense;
  • Goldman Sachs PIA on its €1.3bn financing for the acquisition of the energy cable and telecom cable business of Pirelli;
  • JPMorgan on the debt financing used by Resolution Life to finance its acquisition of the closed life insurance business of Royal & SunAlliance;
  • Lehman Brothers and Starwood Capital on the restructuring of the €1.3bn leveraged facilities to the Le Meridien hotel group; and
  • Telewest Communications on its £3.5bn corporate reorganisation.

For more information please contact Nick Sims, business development and communications manager, at nick.sims@freshfields.com.

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Awards

Debt and equity-linked team of the year - IFLR European Awards (2008)

Pro-bono award - IFLR European Awards (2008)

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