Annette Kurdian
Partner
London
Annette Kurdian
Partner
London
Contact details
Annette has extensive experience in cross border leveraged finance across the credit spectrum and capital structures with a specific focus in advising lenders on the cross over of leveraged and infrastructure finance transactions and on private credit leveraged finance transactions. She has carved out a successful practice leading the development of these financing strategies also complimented by her experience of complex fund finance and mainstream leveraged financing transactions.
Qualifications
Professional
The Law Society of Ireland On the Roll, 2019
Law Society of England and Wales Solicitor, 2002
Law Society of New South Wales Solicitor, 1997
Academic
College of Law, Sydney, 1997
Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in accounting) / Bachelor of Laws (merit) University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996
Related articles
News: 02 June 2023
A&O advises on the financing for Asda’s acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland business
Allen & Overy’s leveraged finance team has advised the debt financing sources on Asda’s acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland operations for an enterprise value of c. GBP2.27 billion.
News: 11 November 2022
Allen & Overy advises bank syndicate of successful GIP and KKR led consortium for Vantage Towers
Experience highlights
The arrangers and syndicate lenders in connection with the proposed acquisition by GIP and KKR led consortium of a stake in Vantage Towers AG, a leading telecoms tower company in Europe.
The arrangers on the acquisition, refinancing and backstop facilities made available to finance KKR’s recommended offer to acquire ContourGlobal plc, a British power generation business owning 138 power plants in the Americas, Africa and Europe, split between its thermal and renewables divisions.
The lenders on the separate standalone refinancings of each of KKR’s and Equitix’s successful circa GBP2bn public-to-private for John Laing PLC, developer and operator of infrastructure projects across the UK, Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia.
The lenders on the GBP2.815bn refinancing of Viridor, a leading recycling, resource and waste management company controlled by funds managed by KKR (following working on the financing for its GBP4.2bn acquisition).
Qualifications
Professional
The Law Society of Ireland On the Roll, 2019
Law Society of England and Wales Solicitor, 2002
Law Society of New South Wales Solicitor, 1997
Academic
College of Law, Sydney, 1997
Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in accounting) / Bachelor of Laws (merit) University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996
Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- The lenders on the holdco financing for KKR’s acquisition of a 30% minority stake in Telenor Fiber A.S., a company established to hold the Norwegian passive fibre assets of the Telenor Group.
- The lenders on the financing of Open Dutch Fiber’s acquisition of one of the Netherlands’ largest wholesale open fibre broadband network providers E-Fiber (having originally advised the lenders on the financing for KKR and DTCP’s launch of Open Dutch Fiber and strategic agreement between Open Dutch Fiber and T-Mobile Netherlands).
- Advising the lenders on the additional facilities for ADNOC Oil Pipelines LLC, in which funds managed by BlackRock and KKR have a material minority stake in the $4bn pipeline infrastructure transaction with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (having advised the lenders on the financing for the original investment).
- The lenders in relation to the refinancing of Swissport following its 2020 restructuring.
- The lenders in relation to a holdco financing to support Stonepeak’s minority investment in Inspired Education Group, a global private schools provider.
- Funds managed by Alcentra Limited on the refinancing of the unitranche facility provided to Lumenis Ltd. (a global leader in the field of clinical solutions) following the sale of its surgical division, to provide financing to the remaining non-surgical activities provided by the Lumenis group.
- The unitranche lender on the financing supporting Mubadala Capital’s acquisition of Witherslack Group, a leading operator of schools and home accommodation in the special educational needs sector in the UK.
Published Work
- Annette Kurdian and Andrew Smith, “The Legal Framework for Secured Credit, An Australian Perspective”, delivered to the International Bar Association, 17th Annual Conference, International Finance Law and published as “Secured Transaction Law Survey, The Legal Framework for Secured Credit An Australian Perspective – Taking, Maintaining and Enforcing Security”, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law, Volume 16(2), (3) February- March 2001
Recognition
'She is really knowledgeable, commercial and excellent at thinking through and explaining issues. She is a really good collaborator on deals.' 'She has excellent technical ability, is constructive, able to find solutions and doesn’t miss a thing.'
Chambers and Partners, 2021
Annette Kurdian’s broad based leveraged finance practice sees her advising clients on deals utilising the full spectrum of debt products, including direct lending mandates, as well as hybrid structures combining infrastructure and leveraged finance technology.
Legal 500, 2021
Awards & accolades
Best in Banking & Finance
European Women in Business Law Awards
Ranked
The Lawyer’s Hot 100
