A partner in the Finance Group, Matthew Wilson advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on complex cross-border debt financings. His experience spans leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings, holdco PIK and preferred equity financings, recapitalisations, liability management strategies and restructurings.
Matthew brings a unique perspective from extended capital markets secondments at TDR Capital and Hg Capital, where he played a key role in executing market-leading transactions with diverse debt capital structures.
Matthew’s noteworthy representative matters (including at his previous firm and while on secondment) include advising:
- Apollo Global Management:
- on the financing and structuring aspects of its acquisition of Evri, one of the UK’s largest parcel delivery companies, from Advent International
- alongside Evri on the financing aspects of its merger with the DHL UK Group and sale of a significant minority stake in the combined business to the DHL Group
- alongside Graanul Invest, a leading European producer of sustainable wood pellets, on the consent solicitation to extend the maturity of its existing €630 million notes and its €100 million super senior revolving credit facility
- on the financing aspects of its acquisition, alongside other investors, of a minority stake in Motor Fuel Group from CD&R
- on the financing and structuring aspects of its acquisition of a majority stake in Prosol Group, the multi-specialist in fresh food businesses and food retail in France, from Ardian
- alongside United Living on a series of incremental and working capital financings
- TDR Capital:
- alongside Acqua & Sapone on the issuance and private placement of additional senior secured notes
- alongside I Squared Capital and Aggreko on certain incremental TLB financings and repricings
- alongside I Squared Capital and Applus on certain incremental TLB financings and repricings
- alongside Arrow Global on the exchange and refinancing of its fixed and floating senior secured notes and the amendment and extension of its revolving credit facility
- alongside Asda on certain incremental TLB financings and refinancing of certain senior secured notes
- alongside BPP on its private credit-led refinancing and subsequent incremental financings and recapitalisation
- alongside Constellation Automotive Group on its c. £1.8 billion refinancing which included a £1.3 billion unitranche and a £240 million revolving credit facility
- alongside EG Group on certain incremental TLB financings and repricings
- alongside Modulaire Group on its refinancing, incremental high-yield note issuances and asset-backed facilities and subsequent sale to Brookfield
- alongside Popeyes UK on its corporate and working capital financing arrangements
- Hg Capital:
- alongside TA Associates and The Access Group on The Access Group’s £3.5 billion refinancing and subsequent incremental financings and recapitalisation
- alongside Leonard Green Partners and IRIS Software on IRIS Software’s £1.55 billion (equivalent) private credit-led refinancing
- on the financing aspects of its acquisition of a majority stake in Personal & Informatik
- alongside Personal & Informatik on:
- its €455 million private credit-to-BSL refinancing and dividend recapitalisation
- its €1.205 billion subsequent BSL refinancing of its entire capital structure in connection with Hg’s further investment in, and recapitalisation of, Personal & Informatik, which valued the company at €5.5 billion
- alongside Litera on the financing aspects of its acquisitions of Kira Systems, BigSquare, Micron Systems and Upper Sigma
- on its majority investment in Nomadia, a mobile applications and SaaS solutions company
- on its majority investment in Visma, a leading provider of business-critical software, in a transaction valuing the business at an enterprise value of $12.2 billion
- ECI Partners alongside CSL, the critical IoT connectivity experts, on the financing and structuring aspects of CSL’s private credit refinancing in connection with ECI’s exit of CSL into its first continuation fund
- Searchlight Capital Partners:
- alongside Survitec on:
- its £270 million refinancing and acquisition of Hansen Protection AS
- the sale of Beaufort, the aerospace and defense survival equipment division of Survitec, to Capitol Meridian Partners and Stellex Capital Management
- TA Associates:
- alongside Five Arrows and RLDatix on:
- RLDatix’s $2 billion (equivalent) private credit-led refinancing of its senior facilities
- on the financing aspects of the merger of its RLDatix Life Sciences division with MediSpend
- alongside Inspired Education on:
- its €600 million refinancing and acquisition of Alpha Plus Group
- its subsequent €1,095 million refinancing and upsize of its €795 million TLB
- Advent, Cinven and RAG-Stiftung on the €17.2 billion carve-out acquisition of the elevator division of thyssenkrupp AG
- Bain Capital:
- on its €955.3 million public takeover offer for Caverion Corporation
- alongside its portfolio company Consolis Group on its €300 million refinancing and subsequent €30 million asset-backed facility
- Blackstone on the financing of its acquisition of Bourne Leisure
- CPPIB:
- alongside Montagu and other consortium members on their acquisition of Galileo Global Education
- alongside other consortium members, on the €420 million refinancing of Sportradar
- EP Group on the financing and structuring aspects of its cash offer for International Distributions Services, the parent company of the UK’s Royal Mail and international parcels network GLS
- HGGC on the financing of its acquisition of Specialist Risk Group
- Strategic Value Partners and its portfolio company, Klöckner Pentaplast, on its €1.9 billion refinancing, which included senior secured notes, senior unsecured notes and a term loan with ESG-linked ratchet
- Loan Star Funds on the financing aspects of its sale of Stark Group to CVC Capital Partners
- The Carlyle Group on its voluntary public takeover offer for Schaltbau Holding AG
- TPG Rise Climate on the financing aspects of its acquisition of a majority stake in A-Gas from KKR
