Regularly working alongside the firm’s top-notch corporate practice, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP provides debt finance expertise on some big-ticket corporate-led M&A mandates. In this context, the firm is well-placed to provide sophisticated advice utilising debt throughout the capital structure, governed by both English and New York law. Team head Pete Coulton is key to much of this work and has also recently handled a number of borrower-side mandates in relation to multi-jurisdictional data centre financings.
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- 'The team has tremendous expertise in financing complex multi-stage data centre construction projects.’
‘The collaboration between Pete Coulton and Steven Messina across EMEA and USA is excellent, and they have formed a unique synergy in being able to finance deals in the USA and EMEA seamlessly.’
Key clients
- 58.com Inc.
- Adevinta ASA
- Blackstone Inc.
- Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure
- Castlelake L.P.
- Energy Infrastructure Partners AG
- Engelhart Commodities Trading Partners
- Intelsat S.A.
- International Paper Company
- JAB Holding Company
- Las Vegas Sands Corp.
- L’Occitane Groupe
- Markerstudy Group
- Optio Group
- Plata
- Pollen Street Capital
- SDC Capital Partners
- SDCL Edge Acquisition Corporation
- The Travel Corporation
Work highlights
Advising JAB and its affiliate Acorn Holdings B.V. in connection with the financing of its acquisition of shares in JDE Peet’s N.V.—the world’s largest pure-play coffee& tea company—from global snack giant Mondelez.
Advised Adevinta and its special committee of independent directors in connection with financing aspects of the $13.2bn bid to acquire Adevinta by Permira Advisers LLP and The Blackstone Group International Partners LLP, and including General Atlantic Service Company, L.P.
Advised L'Occitane Groupe S.A. and Reinold Geiger, the majority shareholder of L’Occitane International, S.A., a global luxury cosmetics group based in Europe and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in the financing aspects of the take-private bid for L’Occitane International.
Practice head
Pete Coulton
Other key lawyers
Sebastian FitzGerald; Zoe Cooper Sutton; Rui Qi; Brendan Macreadie