Overview
Tom is a highly regarded partner in our banking and finance practice, specialising in public and private leveraged and acquisition financing transactions.
Tom acts for financial sponsors, private equity and infrastructure funds, investment banks and borrowers/issuers on a range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including leveraged loans, incurrence-based and covenant-lite financings, infrastructure financings, P2P transactions, unitranche, senior, TLB and super senior facilities, high yield bonds, bridge facilities, bank/bond financings, refinancings and restructuring.
Tom has particular experience and expertise in covenant-lite, incurrence-based bank/bond documentation and capital structures which is at the forefront of the European leveraged finance market.
Tom is named as a ‘rising star’ and one of ’40 under 40’ rising legal practitioners in private equity (Legal Week, British legal awards) and as one of the Top Financing Lawyers in EMEA by Mergerlinks
Work Highlights
Tom has advised on a wide range of debt financing transactions.
These include advising:
- Goldman Sachs and related funds on numerous transactions, including on debt financing for the public offers for Kahoot! AS, Froy AS and L’Ocitane, the acquisitions of Adler & Allan, Treysa, Advania, Visolit, Content+Cloud, DataCenter Oy, Elevate, Lloyds Register (LRQA), Caldic, B&B Hotels and related transactions and investments in Frovi and L’Ocitane
- Onex on debt financing supporting the acquisition of Fischbach GmbH
- IK Partners and GS MBD on debt financing for Advania and related transactions
- DigitalBridge, InfraBridge and Swiss Life on financing for Telecom Infrastructure Partners
- Triton on multiple transactions, including financing for its public offer for Caverion and the debt financing for Assemblin, Bormioli Pharma and DeepOcean
- Globalvia and Kinetic: on debt financing for their recommended offer for the take-private of The Go-Ahead Group plc
- Brookfield: on multiple transactions, including in relation to Network International, GEMS, Educo/Nordiqus and on financing for its public offer for HomeServe plc and on Brookfield’s acquisition of and investment in TDF
- Bridgepoint: in relation to debt financing on multiple transactions, including for Practice Plus, CareUK, Miller Homes, Diaverum and others
- Unifiedpost Group: in relation to growth financing provided by Francisco Partners
- IPI Partners: on senior and holdco debt financing for the acquisition of Digiplex
- Warburg Pincus and Towerbrook: on financing for the public offer and takeover of The AA Group, and subsequent financing matters
- Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL): on multiple transactions, including in relation to the acquisitions of Onelink and of Webhelp from KKR and other transactions
- Apollo on the loan, bond and PIK financings supporting its buy-out of Verallia, and subsequent transactions (awarded IFR leverage finance deal of the year) and on the debt financing supporting Apollo’s public offer and acquisition of Gamenet Group / Lottomatica, and Apollo’s bid and public offer for RPC
Tom was recently recognised as one of ’40 under 40’ rising legal practitioners in private equity (Legal Week, British legal awards) and as one of the Top Financing Lawyers in EMEA Mergerlinks.
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