Leveraged and Acquisition Finance
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Our team combines technical excellence with commercial awareness and a deep understanding of the Irish and international markets, ensuring we deliver practical, responsive advice on even the most complex transactions.
Matheson is recognised as a market-leading firm for leveraged finance transactions of all kinds, including financing transactions involving private equity, mergers and acquisitions and similar transactions. We act for lenders and borrowers on a wide range of transactions involving the provision of debt and other forms of finance to Irish corporate and other borrowers.
Our Finance and Capital Markets team comprises more than 50 lawyers, including some of the most experienced finance lawyers in Ireland. We regularly work on syndicated and bilateral credit facilities involving many of Ireland’s largest corporate borrowers, as well as a variety of state entities and sponsors, and have extensive experience working with Loan Market Association documents.
We advise on the full spectrum of leveraged and acquisition finance transactions, including:
- Senior secured leveraged facilities for management and leveraged buy-outs, including listed company acquisitions
- Syndicated and bilateral lending transactions
- Acquisition financings and corporate finance
- Real estate financing
- Debt restructurings
- Receivables financings
- Mezzanine finance
- Private credit and alternative lending
- Green and sustainable finance
We understand that optimal outcomes for our clients in these transactions require expertise across multiple disciplines, and we leverage the capabilities of our tax, property, corporate and regulatory teams to achieve the best solutions.
Experience Highlights
Recent mandates include advising:
- S2G Ventures, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, Morgan Stanley’s 1GT Fund and an affiliate of the Crown family’s CC Industries Inc. on the financing aspects of their combined €115million investment in XOCEAN, a leading provider of data collection solutions for environmental and ocean data
- Shrieve Chemical Company (a portfolio company of Gemspring Capital) on the financing aspects of its acquisition of Carbon Chemicals Group Limited
- On the provision of senior secured leveraged facilities for management and leveraged buy-outs, including listed company acquisitions
- Smurfit Kappa on the merger with WestRock Company, including financing
- An international lender in respect of the financing of the acquisition of a large storage facility
- Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6 on the financing aspects of its acquisition of Ireland’s largest waste company, Beauparc Utilities Holdings Limited, from founder Eamon Waters and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund.
- Graham Partners on the financing aspects of its acquisition of Smithstown Light Engineering.
- Winthrop Technologies, Europe’s leading dedicated turnkey data centre delivery provider, and its shareholders, on the financing aspects of its strategic partnership with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and affiliated funds.
- Towerbrook Capital Partners on the financing aspects its €100m controlling equity investment in CarTrawler, the leading B2B provider of car rental and mobility solutions to the travel industry.
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