Overview
Christianne is a U.S. partner in our London office and focusses on high yield bonds and leveraged finance transactions across Europe and emerging markets.
Christianne has extensive experience advising financial institutions and corporates on complex cross-border leveraged finance transactions, in particular high yield bond offerings, acquisition financing and debt liability management transactions. She has significant expertise in the natural resources sector.
In addition, Christianne regularly advises on high yield restructurings, both on creditor and debtor side.
Experience
Christianne has advised a wide range of clients on their significant financing transactions. These include advising:
High yield issuances
- Helios Towers plc, a London Stock Exchange listed independent telecoms infrastructure company, on its issuance of $500m of senior notes
- Endeavour Mining plc, a London Stock Exchange listed gold producer, on its issuance of $500m of senior notes and the tender offer for its existing senior notes
- TAP Air Portugal, Portugal’s state-owned flag carrier airline and the leading Portuguese airline, on its private placement of €200m of senior notes
- the bookrunner on the offering by Globe Trade Centre (GTC), a group primarily operating a commercial real estate portfolio in the CEE and SEE regions, of €455m of senior secured notes
- the solicitation agents in respect of the senior secured notes consent solicitation by Motel One, a leading economy design hotel chain in Europe, in connection with PAI Partners’ acquisition of a majority stake therein
- the initial purchasers on the offering by Oslo Stock Exchange listed Shelf Drilling, a leading shallow water offshore drilling contractor, of over $1bn of senior notes, and the dealer manager in respect of the related tender offers for Shelf Drilling’s existing senior notes and senior secured first lien notes
- First Quantum Minerals, a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed global copper company, on issuances of in excess of $6.5bn of senior notes
Restructuring
- Standard Profil Automotive GmbH, a leading European manufacturer of automotive body sealing solutions, on the restructuring of its €275m senior secured notes by way of UK Scheme of Arrangement
- Glencore on the refinancing of London Stock Exchange listed Tullow Oil’s $1.285bn senior secured notes
- Petrofac, a global energy services company, on its proposed group financial restructuring in relation to its $600m senior secured notes
- certain shareholders and creditors of The LYCRA Company on the comprehensive refinancing of the company’s debt maturing in 2023. The refinancing represented one of the most innovative “drop-down financing” transactions that had been seen in the European market to date.
- an ad hoc group of lenders holding approximately $175m in senior secured term debt in the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Pioneer Energy Services Inc.
- the committee of senior secured bondholders of New Look, the UK-headquartered national fashion retailer, on the amendment of its high yield bond terms in connection with a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) of its store portfolio
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