Private Credit and Direct Lending Funds

• Advised Ares Management Limited as direct lender on a financing package to support the Onecom Group (an LDC portfolio company).
• Advised Ares Management Limited on the provision of a financing package to support the Daisy Group (a B2B telecoms provider).
• Advised Ares Management Limited on its senior financing package to, and preferred equity investment in, environmental consultancy RSK Group Limited.
• Advised Ares Management Limited on the provision of financing facilities to the Survitec Group (a Searchlight Capital Partners portfolio company) to refinance existing debt and finance the acquisition of Hansen Protection.
• Advised Baring Asset Management Limited as direct lender on a financing package to support a minority investment by Exponent Private Equity in Xeinadin, an advisory and accountancy business.
• Advised Baring Asset Management Limited on the provision of financing facilities to Livingbridge for its acquisition of CitNOW Group, a global provider of software for the automotive industry.
• Acting for Kartesia Management as direct lender on a unitranche financing package to support MidEuropa Partners’ acquisition of Optegra Eye Health Care, a leading European ophthalmology platform.
• Acting for Kartesia Management and HSBC Bank PLC as senior lenders on a financing package to support H.I.G Capital’s investment in the Andwis Group, a UK technical and maintenance services provider.
• Advised Apollo Management International LLP and Investec Bank plc as senior lenders on the financing of ICG’s acquisition of the Supporting Education Group, a leading UK education services platform.
• Advised Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP as direct lender on the financing of GHO Capital Partners’ acquisition of ClearView Healthcare Partners, a leading life sciences strategic consultancy.
• Advised CVC Credit Partners as direct lender on debt financing provided to a foreign exchange and derivatives brokerage firm to support business growth.
• Advised Pemberton as direct lender on the financing of Triton Partners’ acquisition of Sunweb, a Dutch holiday and travel business.

Private Equity Sponsors and Corporate Borrowers

• Advised Kier Group plc, a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, on the resizing and extension of its £475 million revolving credit facility.
• Advised Further Global Capital Management, L.P. as financial sponsor on debt financing for its acquisition of The Progeny Group Limited, a wealth management consultancy.
• Advised MidEuropa Partners as financial sponsor on a debt financing provided by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development to support its portfolio company Pigu, an online retail marketplace.
• Advised Warwick Capital Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in Danforth Care Partners, a care homes business.
• Advised One Equity Partners as financial sponsor on debt financing for its acquisition of the Brush Group, an independent provider of equipment, services and solutions for electrical power generation and distribution.
• Advised ArchiMed as financial sponsor on the debt refinancing of its equity-funded acquisitions of Direct Healthcare Group and the European Patient Handling division of the Handicare group.

*List includes matters worked on prior to joining Akin.