Legal advice on debt financing and restructuring on sponsor-backed deals and to private equity portfolio companies.

Private Equity houses require comprehensive understanding of their target business and market from their lawyers. We provide tailored finance advice and add value for our clients with our industry knowledge and contacts.

We bring a full grasp of lender concerns developed in acting for our lender clients in the relevant sectors and generally in the sponsor finance market. This adds tangible value to the financing process and negotiations.

Our finance lawyers have an extensive track record advising Private Equity houses and their portfolio companies on financings for acquisitions, bolt-ons, roll-outs, refinancing, bond and note issues, working capital and capex, and innovative bespoke or tax-driven financial structures. We deliver a comprehensive, fast and cost-effective service, combining strategic and sector insight with pragmatic and commercially astute advice.

Our recent experience includes:

Better Capital
Advised Better Capital on their finance arrangements of the MBO of Reader's Digest Association and Reader's Digest Financial Services.

Chamonix
Advised Chamonix, the secondary market private equity firm, in relation to its acquisition of a portfolio of five businesses from the LINPAC group. We also provide ongoing advice on other bolt-on, acquisitions, disposals and general advice to portfolio companies.

ISIS Equity Partners
Advised ISIS in relation to the investment by the Baronsmead VCTs in Valldata, enabling a management buy-out of the business from private vendors by its two key directors.

[Advised ISIS on its investment in Hurley Palmer Flatt Limited, a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy.]

Advised ISIS in relation to its investment in Encore Ticket Group.

NBGi Private Equity
Advised NBGi Private Equity on the management buy-out of facilities services provider Facilities Services Group Limited from Spice Limited.