Présentation
Aymen Mahmoud focuses his practice on complex debt financing transactions for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, corporate borrowers and issuers and other financial institutions. His experience includes acting in respect of direct lending, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated senior, second lien and mezzanine lending, distressed debt trading, portfolio acquisitions and restructurings, emerging markets and other debt securities, including high-yield debt offerings.
Aymen played a key role in first establishing the Loan Market Association forms of leveraged and high yield documentation.
Results
- Advised Blue Water Energy and Excellence Logging on the financing aspects of its acquisition of the Surface Data Logging Business from Weatherford International plc*
- Advised Blue Water Energy and PX Group on the refinancing of its existing facilities*
- Advised IK Investment Partners in connection with the refinancing of the Visolit Group*
- Advised Guggenheim Credit Partners in connection with the acquisition of the iContracts business*
- Advised creditors to Swissport’s in connection with a PIK issuance*
- Advised Charterhouse in connection with certain financing matters*
- Advised Permira Debt Managers on the financing of the Deltatre group’s acquisition of Massive Inc.*
- Advised IK Investment Partners on the financing of the Veritas Petroleum Group*
- Advised the Ad Hoc First Lien Group in connection with the financial restructuring of the Claire’s Stores, Inc group*
- Advised certain lenders to the Danaos Corporation in connection with the group’s US$2.2 billion restructuring*
- Advised Brookfield Business Partners in connection with the US$4.6 billion acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company*
- Advised Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP (as a key shareholder) in connection with the NJJ-led consortium’s acquisition of eircom*
- Advised Premier Oil’s convertible bondholders on the group’s US$2.8 billion restructuring*
- Advised Platinum Equity Advisors on the issuance US$280 million 9% senior secured notes due 2022 and ABL facility in relation to its acquisition of the Pattonair Group*
- Advised Tronox on its bank and bond refinancing (including US$2.1 billion term loan B and US$450 million senior notes) in contemplation of the acquisition of Cristal’s TiO2 business*
- Advised HPS Investment Partners on various confidential special situations lending opportunities*
- Advised WFS and Platinum Equity Advisors in connection with their $50 million tap issuance of 9.50% senior secured notes due 2022
- Advised Bregal Freshstream on the financing for its acquisition of Verwater*
- Advised Bregal Freshstream on the financing for its acquisition of Intergas*
- Advised Ardian on the EUR447 million financing for its acquisition of SLV from Cinven*
- Advised the creditors in connection with the financing of the Intelligent group split into Combell and Sentia*
- Advised the creditors in connection with Vitruvian’s acquisition of EasyPark*
- Advised JP Morgan in connection with its confidential investment in a loan portfolio*
- Advised Bybrook Capital and Morgan Stanley in debt restructuring transactions for DEMA SpA, an Italian aeronautics parts manufacturer, which included Bybrook Capital’s acquisition of a substantial majority of DEMA’s share capital, and in conjunction with Morgan Stanley, funding a new secured EUR60 million bond*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Credentials
Education
Nottingham Law School, LPC, 2007
University of Warwick, LLB, 2006
Admissions
England & Wales
