When you’re working on major financing transactions, you need a legal team that knows the business environment inside out - and has experience advising major banking and finance firms across the world.
We work with clients new and old alike - including direct lending funds, private equity houses and borrowers. Whether you’re financing cross-border or domestic acquisitions, working on distressed M&A, corporate acquisitions, structured financing, MBOs or MBIs, or refinancing portfolios and recapitalizations, we can help you.
Collaborative, lasting relationships are key to what we do – we hope that like some of our finance clients, you’ll be with us for decades. People stay with us because we’re reliable, approachable and pragmatic - we have a strategic, partner-led approach which cuts through the detail to provide commercial advice tailored specifically to your transaction.
We have extensive experience acting on both sides of transactions, and at the core of everything we do is equally deep experience of the industry. Deploying the local knowledge of our international offices, we can advise you across jurisdictions, and on large-scale projects. As a firm, we’re active in sectors including financial services, business services, TMT, healthcare, industrials and energy - whatever business you’re in, we’ll assemble a bespoke team tailored to your needs.
Our Leveraged Finance capability in Ireland
Our leveraged finance lawyers have advised on a number of significant corporate acquisitions, restructures and MBO’s and regularly work alongside experienced colleagues across the firm including in the Corporate and Tax departments. Our team also regularly engages in multi-jurisdiction cross-border deals and can deliver a seamless service, whether you are operating in Ireland or beyond.
Our recent experience includes advising:
- a domestic lending institution in respect of the provision of acquisition facilities to a Northern Irish based builders merchants for the acquisition of a building supplies company
- a sponsor and Newco / MBO team in connection with the provision of €28m in senior funding to part fund the MBO of a large domestic engineering group and to provide working capital facilities
- a UK lender in connection with the provision of term and invoice discounting facilities in connection with the acquisition of a Northern Irish based company
- a UK lender in connection with the provision of term and invoice discounting facilities in connection with the acquisition of an oil company
- a UK private equity group in connection with the provision of term facilities to a Northern Irish based group and subsequent restructuring of the group involving a partial debt for equity swap