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Marco Hughes

Associate
marco.hughes@freshfields.com
London: +44 20 7936 4000
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Marco is an Associate in our Leveraged Finance team and a member of our Global M&A and Capital practice in our London office.

Marco specialises in acting for private equity sponsors and financial investors on leveraged finance acquisitions and refinancings. He has also advised on a number of general corporate financings and restructurings.

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  • Advising EQT in relation to the financing for its acquisition of CluePoints, a premier RBQM and data quality oversight software provider in the life sciences sector.
  • Advising Cinven on the debt financing of its acquisition of Smart Communications, a leading global cloud-native provider of customer communication management ('CCM') and inbound conversation management (‘ICM’) software solutions.
  • Advising TDR Capital and CorpAcq, a UK-based corporate compounder, on the group's debt refinancing.
  • Advising Cinven and group.ONE on the financing in respect of group.one's acquisition of the dogado group.
  • Advising GIC on the financing in respect of its acquisition of Miller Insurance, a leading independent specialist broker, from Cinven, being GIC's first majority shareholder investment.
  • Advising EQT in relation to the financing supporting its rollover investment in Idealista, an online classified real estate platform.
  • Advising QA Group, a CVC portfolio company and leading provider of IT education and skill, on the refinancing of their facilities.
  • Advising PAI in relation to the implementation of a portable financing package offered by the sellers in relation to its acquisition of Azets.
  • Advising Cinven, CPPIB and Hotelbeds on Hotelbeds' financing. 
  • Advising Vivo Energy on its financing arrangements.
  • Advising Phoenix Group Holdings plc on its financing arrangements.
  • Advising Macromill, Inc on the sale of MetrixLab and associated vendor loan arrangement.

Marco Hughes

Associate
marco.hughes@freshfields.com

T +44 20 7936 4000

London Office

100 Bishopsgate

London EC2P 2SR

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