Finance
Immersed in the private capital milieu, Macfarlanes LLP has excellent traction among credit funds as lenders and financial sponsors as borrowers, engaged in transactions within the mid to upper-mid-market leveraged finance space, in particular. ‘Very experienced’ team head Andrew Perkins has longstanding expertise advising on alternative credit, adding value to clients on both the deployment of capital for M&A transactions and refinancings, as well as in the context of raising debt for the funds themselves. The ’responsive and solutions-focused’ Adam Caines, who was recently promoted partner, regularly supports Perkins on major mandates as well as successfully having cultivated his own impressive client base. On the borrower front, Kirstie Hutchinson has an outstanding reputation advising corporates across a range of debt financing matters, as well as regularly being engaged by private equity sponsors on LBO work and on refinancings/repricings. Malcolm Hitching also handles some sponsor-led work, as well as having niche expertise advising private credit funders in the litigation finance market.
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Finance
Position
Kirstie acts for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and issuers, credit fund and bank lenders, special situations investors and speciality finance providers on a range of financing transactions including investment grade, hybrid and leveraged financings and acquisition financings, dividend recapitalisations and capital restructurings. She has extensive domestic, European and global cross-border experience.
Kirstie is a member of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association and of the British-German Jurists Association.
She is ranked by Chambers & Partners and by Legal 500 2021 as a “Leading Individual” for both “Acquisition Finance” and “Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans”; and was named in “The Lawyer” magazine’s “Hot 100 2021” as “one of the City’s go-to banking and finance lawyers for private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds”.
Career
Qualified 2003; partner 2012
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Testimonials
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- ‘It is a highly commercial and responsive advice.’
‘The team is well versed in advising on complex, cross-border acquisition finance deals. They have significant experience advising credit funds and private equity funds on leveraged finance deals and have carved themselves out as one of the go-to firms for mid-market acquisition finance deals.’
Key clients
- Joshua Alliance/Falcon 24 Topco Limited
- Pitch International
Work highlights
Advised Evelyn Partners (ultimately controlled by funds managed and/or advised by Permira and Warbug Pincus) on the sale of the Evelyn Partners professional services business to a buyer ultimately controlled by funds advised by Apax Partners.