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Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management ("Canaccord") on its credit arrangements to support its acquisition of Brooks Macdonald Asset Management (International) Limited from Brooks Macdonald Group plc.
This article, authored by international secondee Pascal Urban from Gleiss Lutz, was first published in the January 2025 issue of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law. The author thanks James Bell, Knowledge Counsel in the Finance Department at Travers Smith LLP, for his helpful assistance on this article.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Inflexion on the financing of its strategic minority investment in Baker Tilly Netherlands, a leading accountancy and advisory firm.
Travers Smith LLP has advised AIM-listed GlobalData Plc (GlobalData), a leading data, analytics, and insights platform, on £340 million of new debt facilities.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Bridgepoint Credit on the financing of ECI Partners' acquisition of Insurance Insider, a leading digital platform that provides insights and analysis for the world’s top insurers, distributors, service providers, and investors.
Travers Smith LLP has advised EMK Capital (EMK) on the financing of its investment in engineering firm MARCH, as part of the sale from Aliter Capital.
Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Inflexion on the financing of its acquisition of Finanzen.net, a digital broker and financial information portal in the DACH region, alongside the founders. The business will be acquired from transatlantic media company Axel Springer.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Inflexion on the financing of its investment in Tierarzt Plus Partner (TPP), Germany’s largest group of veterinary practices.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Inflexion on its investment in Cutwel, the leading UK specialist cutting tool distributor, alongside the management team led by Adam Gillard.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Inflexion on the refinancing of Celnor Group Limited (Celnor), with new senior facilities made available by Ares. Celnor is a specialist provider of testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services and this new funding will support the business throughout its ambitious growth strategy.
Travers Smith LLP has advised BES Group, a portfolio company of Inflexion, on the upsizing of its secured credit facilities, with Barings, Park Square Capital and SMBC Bank International as joint lenders.
Travers Smith LLP has advised HSBC UK Leveraged Finance on the financing of LDC's significant investment into 15below, a specialist software developer in passenger communications for the travel industry.
In this "In Practice" article, Super senior facilities: a recap on key documentary terms, Finance Senior Associate Michael Leadbeater considers the key documentary terms which will form the basis of facilities agreement negotiations in the context of a super senior/senior financing.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Investec Direct Lending on facilities made available to August Equity owned StarTraq Limited (StarTraq) to fund its bolt-on acquisition of Farthest Gate Limited (Farthest Gate).
Travers Smith LLP has advised Investec Growth & Leveraged Finance on bilateral senior debt facilities to support August Equity's investment in StarTraq Limited (StarTraq), a leading compliance software business.
In their recent "In Practice" article, What can a borrower do when a lender fails to fund?, Donald Lowe and James Bell examine market standard provisions designed to mitigate the risk posed by so called "Defaulting Lenders" and explore the options for a Borrower faced with a Lender that is unable to honour its lending commitments. This article was first published in the May 2023 issue of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client Investec Growth & Leveraged Finance on senior debt facilities to support Cairngorm Capital Partners LLP (Cairngorm Capital) with the financing of portfolio company Verso Wealth Management (Verso).
Travers Smith LLP has advised HSBC UK Bank (HSBC) on the financing of CBPE Capital's (CBPE) investment into accountancy firm Berg Kaprow Lewis (BKL).
Travers Smith LLP has advised Silicon Valley Bank UK on a senior strategic facility in connection with Battery Ventures' (Battery) investment in Skalar Analytical B.V. (Skalar).
We are increasingly seeing requests from borrowers to carve-out assets from the scope of a lender's otherwise all asset English security package. Whilst there may be commercially sensible reasons for this request, lenders should be aware of the potential impact on their enforcement rights before agreeing to this.