Led from London by Neil Campbell and able to draw upon resources in strong regional and international offices, DLA Piper‘s versatile debt finance offering is well-equipped to handle a significant volume of mid-market domestic and cross-border acquisition finance deals for lenders and borrowers. Campbell excels in handling sponsor-backed leveraged deals for private equity firms and private credit funds, and is very well-versed in structuring deals utilising debt products throughout the capital structure. Mark Dwyer has excellent connections with corporate clients which he advises on their ongoing treasury needs as well as on acquisition finance transactions, including “certain funds” public takeovers of listed companies.
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Key clients
- Bridgepoint Credit
- Concord Music
- Pemberton
- Eurazeo
- Muzinich
- CIBC
- Santander
- Standard Chartered Bank
Work highlights
Advising Warner Brothers Discovery & Liberty Global on certain funds financing aspects of £1.15bn sale of All3Media, a media and distribution business, to RedBird IMI.
Advising Concord Music on the certain funds financing of its initial agreed $1.4bn bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund and on the financing arrangements for its increased $1.5bn agreed bid following the emergence of a competing offer from Blackstone.
Acted for MidEuropa on European certain funds financing provided by Ares for the acquisition of FAMAR.
Practice head
Neil Campbell
Other key lawyers
Mark Dwyer; Matt Christmas; Mei Mei Wong; Richard Normington; Charlotte Lewis-Williams; Derwin Jenkinson; Lily Alamir