Megan Lawrence
Partner
London
Megan Lawrence
Partner
London
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Megan specialises in domestic and cross-border leveraged acquisition financings. She advises market-leading banks and private credit funds on leveraged finance transactions at all levels of the capital structure, including broadly syndicated senior TLB financings, second lien financings, bank/ bond transactions and unitranche financings.
Megan has extensive knowledge of the syndicated and leveraged loan markets and regularly advises arrangers, lenders and agents on acquisition and other event driven finance transactions.
In 2019/2020, Megan spent ten months on client secondment to the London-based financial sponsors group at J.P. Morgan.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
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A&O’s leveraged finance and high yield team in New York, London and Paris acted as legal counsel to the lead arrangers in a refinancing transaction for Altice France S.A. consisting of (i) the…
Experience highlights
Advising the mandated lead arrangers and lenders on the EUR1.175bn senior term loan facilities, EUR275m revolving credit facility and EUR375m senior unsecured notes issuance in connection with the acquisition by KPS Capital Partners of the tinplate steel packaging business of Crown Holdings Inc. in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Advising the mandated lead arrangers and lenders on the EUR590m senior term loan and revolving credit facilities provided in connection with the acquisition by Cinven Limited of think-cell software GmbH, a German computer software company.
Advising the mandated lead arrangers and lenders on the USD300m and EUR220m senior term loan facilities and a USD100m revolving credit facility provided in connection with the acquisition by CapVest Partners LLP of Datasite Global Corporation, a Minneapolis-based SaaS technology provider for M&A professionals.
Advising the lenders on the EUR550m unitranche facility and EUR100m acquisition facility provided in connection with the acquisition by Partners Group AG of Pharmathen Global Holding B.V., a leading European pharmaceutical company specialising in advanced drug delivery technologies.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
