Overview
Atish advises lenders and borrowers across the credit spectrum on a range of cross-border and domestic financings, with a particular focus on private and public acquisition, crossover credit and general investment grade financings.
Atish also has experience acting on stressed financings and advising on the financing aspects of corporate restructurings. Atish spent nine months on secondment at Barclays giving him a strong commercial understanding of the banking sector.
He is ranked by both Legal 500 for Bank Lending and by Chambers for Corporate Finance.
Experience
- The mandated lead arrangers: advising the mandated lead arrangers on BAE Systems US$5.55bn acquisition of Ball Aeropsace.
- Unilever and The Magnum Ice Cream Company – advising Unilever and The Magnum Ice Cream Company on the financing aspects of Magnum's separation and demerger from Unilever including its new €5bn financing arrangements.
- The mandated lead arrangers: advising the mandated lead arrangers on a refinancing for the global French food retailer, the Casino Group. The quasi-restructuring included raising EUR1.8bn of crossover credit financing, by way of a EUR1bn Term Loan B, a €800m secured high yield bond and extending a €2bn RCF.
- The mandated lead arrangers: advising the mandated lead arrangers on a £6.7bn bridge facilities agreement to fund the public takeover bid by a consortium led by Fortress Investment Group of British supermarket chain Morrisons.
- Brambles: advising Brambles on their debut US$1.35bn syndicated revolving credit facility.
- The lenders: advising the lenders on the revolving credit facility for the Ocado Group as part of a £875m debt and equity raise.
- Aristocrat Leisure Limited: advising the Aristocrat Group in relation to their financing arrangements to fund their £2.7bn public takeover offer of Playtech plc.
- Caffe Nero: advising Caffe Nero on the refinancing of their senior and mezzanine facilities with a unitranche financing with the term facilities provided by Carlyle and the super senior revolving credit facility provided by HSBC and Santander.
- Mitie: advising Mitie on its financing arrangements supporting its UK public takeover of Marlowe plc.
- Barclays: advising Barclays as the sole underwriter on the financing of Agility's £763m UK public takeover of John Menzies PLC.
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