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Kate is a partner in our global transactions group specialising in leveraged finance
Kate has a broad range of experience and has advised on a number of leveraged, corporate finance, real estate finance and restructuring transactions. Kate specialises in advising private equity funds and corporates and has worked in the London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices of the firm. Kate has also spent time on secondment to the capital markets team at CVC Advisers Limited.
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- Advising CVC on a range of financing solutions including syndicated acquisition debt, the financing of public to private transactions, unitranche and super senior acquisition debt, sports financings, financings of minority investments and other holdco financings, repricings and refinancings.
- Advising EQT on a number of transactions including the financing of majority acquisitions, public to private takeovers, holdco financings and an annual recurring revenue financing.
- Advising TPG on their voluntary public offer for Intervest, a Belgian listed and regulated REIT and the refinancing and reorganisation of the A&O Hotels and Hostels Group, a European hostel chain.
- Advising Corten Capital on the financing of their acquisitions of the Ekco Cloud Group, a cloud and cybersecurity provider based in Dublin and Roima Intelligence, a leading Nordic provider of manufacturing and supply-chain software and services.
- Advising TalkTalk, a telecoms and broadband provider, on a number of financings, including their recent restructuring.
- Advising AEA on the unitranche financing of its acquisition of leading industrial automation system integrator, SCIO Automation and follow-on acquisition of Fabmatics.
- Advising Douglas GmbH, a European cosmetics and perfume retailer, on its high-yield bond offering and term loan B financing and subsequent corporate reorganisation.
- Advising Macromill, Inc on the sale of MetrixLab and associated vendor loan arrangements.
- Advising a consortium led by FountainVest Partners and Hong Kong-listed Anta Sports Products on the financing of its take private of Finland’s Amer Sports.
- Advising Permira on various leveraged financing transactions, including the refinancing of the debt facilities of P&I, the German software solutions business, the refinancing of the debt facilities of Dr Martens, the shoe retailer and the acquisition of Tricor Holdings, a leading corporate services provider.
- Advising Hellman & Friedman on the financing of their acquisition of Autoscout 24, the European digital car marketplace.
- Advising Midea on its €4.1bn bridge-loan facility to finance a voluntary tender offer for the shares in Kuka. Read more about the deal in our case study.
- Advising Blackstone as lender on the €220m financing (and subsequent re-tranching) of 29 pan-European commercial real estate assets for the Invista Group.
Kate Hatcher
Partner
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100 Bishopsgate
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