As part of its broad finance offering, Taylor Wessing LLP delivers an exceptional service to corporates and private equity firms navigating mid-market acquisition finance mandates. A substantial portion of its work revolves around the tech sector, with a particular focus on providing debt financing to the firm’s later-stage, venture-backed clients. Heather Buttle heads up the overarching banking and finance team that houses experienced practitioner Martin Yells, who is well-versed at handing acquisition and property finance matters, in particular.
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Key clients

  • Rutland Partners LLP
  • Automotive Transformation Group/Inflexion
  • Digital 9 Holdco Limited

Work highlights

Advised private equity fund Inflexion and their portfolio company, Automotive Transformation Group on the redemption of loan facilities provided by AshGrove and Investec, linked to the sale of ATG to Keyloop/Francisco Partners.
Provided ongoing legal advice to Digital 9 Holdco Limited, a subsidiary of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc, a fund listed on the London Stock Exchange. Advice centred the Borrower's revolving credit facility in the context of an ongoing managed wind-down of its portfolio investments.
Acting on the debt restructuring of the JSM (a utilities service provider in the UK) group's secured loan and contract guarantee facilities, facilitating the sale of JSM to TowerBrook.

Practice head

Heather Buttle

Other key lawyers

Martin Yells; Fiona Coady; Kate Bowden