Audrey Coker is an associate in the Firm's Banking & Capital Markets Group in London. Audrey's experience includes advising banks in relation to finance transactions and general bank lending. Audrey has recently spent some time on secondment at a major investment bank.

Representative transactions include:

• Acting for Deutsche Bank AG London as Initial Lender, Mandated Lead Arranger, Underwriter and Bookrunner in relation to the €355 million senior and €50 million second lien financing for the acquisition by Oaktree Capital Management LLC, via a newly incorporated company, of Richmond Foods plc (a UK-listed company and the largest ice cream manufacturer in the UK by volume) by way of a scheme of arrangement and the subsequent combination of the Richmond Group with the Roncadin Group (an existing portfolio of Oaktree with ice cream operations in Germany, France and Poland) for a total deal value of €530 million (which includes €123.5 million of equity);
• Acting for the management team in relation to their buy-out of the Adare Printing Group and its subsidiaries, which operate as a printing and publishing group. The MBO was financed in part by term and revolving credit facilities in the amount of £117 million and a working capital facility in the amount of £7 million, each provided by The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland;
• Acting for BNP Paribas and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, as lead arrangers, for the US$2.9 billion international fleet bridge loan facilities backing the sponsor group's acquisition comprising Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc., The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity to help finance their US$15 billion acquisition of The Hertz Corporation. The international fleet bridge loan facilities provide financing in 12 countries; and
• Acting for Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Underwriters of the €3.8 billion senior financing provided to the Jefferson Smurfit Group, an Irish-based manufacturer of paper-based packaging products, in connection with its merger with Kappa Packaging, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of packaging products.

Bars and Courts
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, 2002
England and Wales, 2008

Education
LLB, University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2002
BMS (Hons), University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2002

Publications
Co-author, "Mourant & Co Trustees Limited & another v Sixty UK Ltd (in liquidation) & others: Release of Parent Company Guarantees by way of Company Voluntary Arrangement," International Corporate Rescue, December 2010

Languages
English

Citizenship
New Zealand