Ash Tehrani

Senior Counsel

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Ash Tehrani

Senior Counsel

atehrani@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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  • Structures private debt and capital solutions transactions, including corporate financing transactions, preferred equity and hybrid equity transactions, leveraged and acquisition financing deals, claim purchases, aircraft financings, project financings and out-of-court debt restructurings.
  • Represents private credit/debt funds, alternative asset managers and financial institutions.

Ash Tehrani is a senior counsel in the corporate finance practice in London.

Ash has over 20 years’ experience advising private credit funds, sponsors, asset managers and financial institutions on a wide range of debt and special situations transactions across the UK, US, EMEA and Asia‑Pacific.

His experience spans leveraged and acquisition financings, distressed and stressed credit investments, refinancings and restructurings, secondary loan trading and bespoke structured and capital solutions financings. He regularly advises on complex documentation including credit agreements, intercreditor arrangements, warrants, convertibles and bond instruments, and has deep knowledge of private credit and alternative investment structures.

Prior to joining the firm, Ash most recently served as general counsel for a leading global asset manager’s special situations group.

Representative Work
  • Represented the sole investor that provided a $100 million unitranche debt facility to an American fresh food and indoor farming company.
  • Represented the sole investor that acquired and fully equitized all of the outstanding debt of Pernigotti, an Italian leading chocolate producer.
  • Represented the sole investor on the acquisition and debt refinancing of the majority of the Holmes Place group, owners of ten gyms and sports centers in Spain.
  • Represented the sole investor to $150 million of preferred equity to Fruitist (formerly AgroVision), a global superfruit brand manufacturer.
  • Represented an investor to a newly created convertible senior preferred stock by Acrisure in a $2.1 billion capital raise led by Bain Capital.
  • Represented an investor in the financing the go-private (delist) transaction of KME Group S.p.A. (formerly Intek Group S.p.A.), an Italy-based holding company operating in the copper sector.
  • Represented a key investor in the acquisition of debt and restructuring of Dummen Orange, a Dutch-headquartered international plant and flower business.
  • Represented a senior secured noteholder in the restructuring of Naviera Armas group, a leading passenger and freight ferry operator headquartered in the Canary Islands.
  • Represented a senior secured noteholder in the restructuring of Hertz and action relating to the make-whole premiums and post-petition interest payment.
  • Represented an investor in the acquisition of certain litigation receivables from the settlement of certain US opioid settlement agreements.
  • Represented the sole lender in providing a highly structured term loan with incremental add-ons to a leading specialist in the supply and repair of aircraft, engines and rotable components.
  • Represented a credit fund in a subscription line financing by BNP Paribas.
  • Represented a credit fund in an umbrella subscription line financing by MUFG.
  • Represented a credit fund in a series of co-investment transactions with its LPs in certain of its portfolio investments.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin. 

Education
  • LL.M., University of New South Wales, 2005

  • LL.B., University of New South Wales, 2004

  • B.Com., University of New South Wales, 2004

Bar Admissions
  • Law Society of New South Wales, Australia

  • New York

  • Solicitor, England and Wales

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