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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Offices

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Governor’s House
5 Laurence Pountney Hill
EC4R 0BR
England
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Derek Hrydziuszko

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+44 (0) 20 3400 4816 derek.hrydziuszko@bclplaw.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate and Finance Transactions

Position

Partner

Career

Derek Hrydziuszko has more than two decades experience in the leveraged finance, investment grade and syndicated loans markets where he has acted for a wide range of participants including UK and international banks and financial institutions, private equity sponsors and multi-national corporates on leveraged finance transactions, investment grade financings, margin loans and unsecured financings.

Derek has also acted for both borrowers and lenders on numerous multi-jurisdictional restructuring transactions and for the lenders on a number of project and infrastructure related financings.

Derek’s representative experience also includes advising on a multitude of insurance, leisure and gaming, retail, fintech and hotel matters and he excels at accomplishing complex deals within tight timeframes and in finance transactions involving multiple jurisdictions.

Examples of acquisition finance work include Agilitas’ c€100m acquisition of Prodieco, Kape Technology’s near $1bn acquisition of ExpressVPN, GSH Private Capital’s investment in Getronics Group, Playtech on its €1.3bn acquisition of Snaitech and the MBO of Brookhouse Aerospace.

Derek has also facilitated major deals including Constellation Automotive Group’s £1.8bn refinancing package, the restructuring of Marken’s €400m syndicated facility, as well as multiple facility arrangements for the likes of TFG Brands, Raven Property Group, Playtech, Redde and Thesis Asset Management.

Derek is the London Family and Carers Group Champion, is actively involved in other Diversity and Inclusion activities around gender, disability, race and social mobility and has mentored multiple professional women as part of the 30% Club mentoring programme; Derek also established the Finance Mentoring Programme.

Languages

English

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans

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Derek Hrydziuszko – Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Led by Emma Howdle-Fuller, the small but nimble four-partner commercial lending team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner provides an ‘extremely professional and thorough service’ to banks and corporates across a range of different debt products, from a bilateral as well as a syndicated perspective. Although the firm is typically better-known for its mid-market UK-based work, it continues to grow its reputation for international work, with the ‘exceptionally committed and attentive’ Shanan Dunstan central to this heightened profile – particularly in light of her advice to US lender Wells Fargo on ABL/receivables financings. Derek Hrydziuszko  is also a key member of the team and regularly handles corporate lending work for investment grade clients, as well as advice to them on the financing of corporate-led M&A transactions.

London > Finance > Acquisition finance

Less siloed than some of its peers, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner‘s generalist finance offering has an excellent overarching perspective of market trends and debt products, ensuring that it has the flexibility to effectively advise both creditor and debtor clients across a range of leveraged and event-driven financings. Team head Emma Howdle-Fuller regularly advises banking clients on M&A-related financings, while Derek Hrydziuszko  is more skewed towards corporate borrower mandates, including for large investment grade entities. Shanan Dunstan‘s versatile offering includes a strong and growing presence in the ABL space and she regularly acts on hybrid deals where ABL products sit alongside other debt including term loans.

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