Overview
As a banking partner, Mees advises international and domestic financial institutions, funds and corporates on a broad range of banking transactions, including corporate lending, leveraged finance, syndicated lending and asset-backed financing, as well as on structuring and restructuring transactions. Mees also advises both issuers and underwriters on structured products such as securitisations, covered bonds and bespoke derivatives.
With sustainability features being increasingly front of mind in each of the products on which he advises, Mees has been equally leading in shaping the market for sustainability-linked loans and other sustainability-related elements in the Netherlands, notably including introducing checks and balances necessary to address potential greenwashing allegations.
Mees has lived and worked in Germany, Italy and the UK, providing him with insight into different markets and valuable cross-cultural experience that allows him to close deals in a way that works best for all relevant parties whatever their background.
Experience
Mees has advised on many cross-border banking and finance transactions. Highlights of his work include advising:
- Klöckner & Co SE: advising on the sale of its commodity distribution business and employment matters related to this carve-out, specifically assisting with the Dutch works council consultation processes and merger notifications.
- VARO: advising on the refinancing of its borrowing base and ancillary guarantee facilities.
- Bank of America Merill Lynch International Limited: advising on an amendment of the revolving credit facility provided to ASML Holding N.V.
- European Investment Bank: advising on the financing of Protix, a strategic project in the transition to a sustainable food industry.
- HSBC Continental Europe S.A.: advising on a bilateral export credit facility for NS Groep N.V. to buy new rolling stock from CAF.
- Zurich Insurance Public Limited Company: advising on three bilateral guarantee facility agreements placed underneath a new common terms agreement with Eneco as borrower.
- ABN AMRO Bank N.V.: advising on a €250m revolving credit facility agreement for Vesteda Finance B.V.
- Solas Capital AG: advising on the refinancing of a German and Dutch energy efficiency provider through the sale and transfer of German law governed project contracts to a SPV and the sale and assignment of Dutch law governed receivables from project contracts to an issuer SPV.
- Solas Sustainable Energy Fund: advising on the refinancing of a German and Dutch energy efficiency provider which optimises production plants in Germany and the Netherlands in order to reduce carbon emissions.
- Varengold Bank AG: advising on the asset-backed structured financing of the Billink Group, a Buy Now Pay Later service provider in the Netherlands.
- A consortium of banks: advising on the further increase to the structured warehouse financing for Dutch mortgage lender RNHB.
- Banco Santander S.A.: advising the lenders in respect of two new facility agreements for Attero B.V., after the acquisition by Ardian.
- Invest International Capital B.V.: advising on a €12.7m pre-export financing of materials to be used in the El Ain El Sokhna power project in Egypt.
- CBRE: advising on the amendment and modernisation of its sustainability KPI's for its 2022 RCF and making adjustments to facilitate a succesful syndication to additional lenders.
- I Squared Capital Advisors (UK) LLP: advising on a Senior Facilities Agreement and a high yield bond transaction for their bid for Applus, a Spanish listed company.
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management B.V.: advising on their USD 50,000,000 revolving credit facility agreement with The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch as lender.
- LYCRA: advising the shareholders and certain creditors on the comprehensive refinancing of its 2023 maturing debt.
- FincoEnergies B.V.: advising on the extension of its uncommited sustainability-linked borrowing base facility.
- Cerberus European Investments LLC.: advising on the acquisition of a SEK11.5bn portfolio of loans acquired from Intrum.
- Cerberus European Investments, LLC: leading the tax structuring and structuring for co-investors for the acquisition of 100% of the shares of VeloBank SA, a leading global bank based in Poland.
- Proparco and The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF): advising on a finance package for the construction and expansion of Tier III certified data centres in seven Sub-Saharan African countries including Côte d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Syngenta Crop Protection AG: advising on the amendment an restatement of its existing US$ syndicated facility agreement with, amongst others, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited as agent to Syngenta Finance N.V. as borrower.
- Syngenta AG: advising on a new US$3bn multi-currency syndicated facilities agreement incorporating a US$300m swingline facility.
- Syngenta AG: advising on a new US$300m multi-currency term loan agreement with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited and/or Bank of China Limited Geneva Branch as Original Lender.
- DigitalBridge Investments LLC: advising on a highly structured refinancing of its portfolio of outdoor advertising sites throughout Europe.
- Glenmont Partners I Ltd: advising on the agreements to acquire a 50 per cent ownership share in Ørsted’s offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 3.
- Marfrig Global Foods S.A.: advising on a US$535m syndicated term loan.
- Eagle Super Global Holding B.V.: Advising on a USD 400 million debt-for-equity swap, allowing mezzanine lenders to acquire 100% of The LYCRA Company from Ruyi Textile and Fashion International Group Limited.
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