EXPERIENCE

Nicolò’s representative matters have included advising:

• Bain Capital, BC Partners and their portfolio company Fedrigoni in connection with an offering of €655 million of high yield bonds
• Investindustrial in connection with the committed debt financing for its acquisition, alongside the Bagnoli family, of Forno d’Asolo from BC Partners
• Investindustrial and its portfolio company Guala Closures S.p.A., in connection with:
  • its offering of €350 million of high yield bonds
  • its offering of €500 million of high yield bonds to refinance certain existing debt and its entry into a new €80 million revolving credit facility
• Bain Capital Private Equity:
  • in the €3 billion acquisition and financing for Fedrigoni
  • as part of a consortium, on the financing for their investment in Italian Serie A club Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A.
  • and Cinven and their portfolio company STADA Arzneimittel in connection with an offering of €200 million of high yield bonds
• Bain Capital and NB Renaissance Partners:
  • and their portfolio company Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. in connection with the financing aspects of its acquisition of Be Shaping the Future S.p.A., including an offering of €385 million of high yield bonds
  • in connection with the financing for their acquisition of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., including an offering of €605 million of high yield bonds
• United Group B.V., which is majority-owned by BC Partners, in connection with:
  • its €1.7 billion refinancing, which included fixed and floating rate senior secured notes and senior holdco pay-if-you-can PIK notes
  • the financing for its acquisition of Wind Hellas, including an offering of €980 million fixed and floating rate high yield bonds
  • an offering of €300 million of high yield bonds
  • an offering of €400 million of high yield bonds
• BC Partners on the sale of IMA Group to BDT & MSD Partners
• Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with the financing of its acquisition of MoneyGram International, Inc.
• Strategic Value Partners:
  • and its portfolio company Pfleiderer in connection with its offering of €750 million sustainability-linked high yield bonds
  • and its portfolio company Klöckner Pentaplast in connection with its €1.9 billion refinancing, which included senior secured notes, senior unsecured notes and a term loan with ESG-linked ratchet
• Option Care Health Inc. in connection with its debut offering of $500 million of high yield bonds
• An ad hoc committee of first lien noteholders in connection with the successful recapitalization of the Matalan Group
• An ad hoc group of bondholders on the debt restructuring of Olympic Entertainment Group
• Avia Solutions Group Plc in connection with its debut offering of US$300 million of high yield bonds
• PJSC Uralkali in its offering of US$500 million of bonds
• Chelyabinsk Pipe Manufacturing Plant in its offering of US$300 million of bonds
• Koç Holding A.S. in connection with its US$750 million bond offering
• Ferretti Group S.p.A. in its proposed marketed initial public offering and listing on the Milan Stock Exchange
• Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited in the proposed initial public offering and admission of Techniplas LLC on the London Stock Exchange
• Alro S.A. in its proposed marketed follow-on equity offering
• The joint bookrunners in connection with the offerings of US$3 billion and US$5 billion multi-tranche senior unsecured notes by Enel International Finance N.V., guaranteed by Enel S.p.A.
• The initial purchasers in connection with the offering of US$550 million of high yield bonds by NTV S.p.A.
• UniCredit in connection with its first offering of US$1 billion fixed-rate tier 2 subordinated notes under its US$30 billion Global MTN Programme
• The initial purchasers in connection with the offering of US$320 million of high yield bonds by the Adler Pelzer Group
• CVC Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition of Sisal Group S.p.A.
• SNAI S.p.A. in connection with its offering of €570 million of high yield bonds