Gareth Eagles joined White & Case in February 2003 and is an associate in the Firm's Banking and Capital Markets Group in London. Gareth has experience in international leveraged acquisition finance, financial restructurings and general bank lending. He worked in the Firm's Singapore office between August 2004 and February 2005 and in the Firm's New York office between April 2007 and March 2009. He is qualified in England and Wales and in New York.

Example transactions include:

• Acting for GSO Capital Partners in connection with its investment in The Miller Group Limited, the UK's largest privately owned housebuilding, property development and construction business.
• Acting for Deutsche Bank and HSBC as Lead Arrangers in relation to debt facilities made available to Colfax Corporation and its subsidiaries in connection with Colfax UK Holdings Ltd's recommended cash and share offer for Charter International PLC;
• Acting for Deutsche Bank AG as Sole Lender with respect to a £522 million senior secured bridge credit facility provided to KSE, UK, Inc. in connection with its recommended mandatory cash offer made for Arsenal Holdings PLC, the UK listed holding entity for Arsenal Football Club;
• Acting for Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. in connection with the €6.6 billion refinancing of existing senior and second lien facilities and high yield notes;
• Acting for Nordea in connection with senior debt facilities provided for the purposes of EQT's acquisition of AcadeMedia AB (publ);
• Acting for Credit Suisse, GSO Capital and Babson on the €290 million consensual sale and financial restructuring of ALcontrol;
• Acting for Nordea in connection with Getinge AB's £409 million recommended public offer for Huntleigh Technology plc;
• Acting for Deutsche Bank in relation to the €530 million acquisition by Oaktree Capital Management LLC of Richmond Foods plc by way of a scheme of arrangement;
• Acting for Goldman Sachs, Citibank, HSBC, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Société Générale, Caja de Ahorros y Monte De Piedad de Madrid, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Rabobank in connection with the €10.8 billion financing for the cash portion of Mittal Steel N.V.'s €25.8 billion bid to acquire Arcelor SA;
• Acting for CIBC and JPMorgan in connection with the bolt-on acquisition of the Flint Ink Group by way of amending and restating the BASF Drucksysteme GmbH/ANI Printing Inks senior facilities agreement to include further term debt, a cash bridge and a second lien facility, the total amounting to US$1.35 billion in new term facilities and a €60 million increased revolver;
• Acting for Nordic Capital in connection with the SEK 9.4 billion senior, second lien, mezzanine and PIK recapitalisation of Ahlsell AB;
• Acting for Nordic Capital in connection with its €599 million acquisition of Outokumpu Copper Products Oy;
• Acting for Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers in connection with the financing of the €630 million purchase by Warburg Pincus from Candover of Clondalkin Group Holdings Limited; and
• Acting for Deutsche Bank in connection with the US$500 million exit from Chapter 11 of Exide Technologies in 2004 and the subsequent refinancing of the exit facilities in 2007.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 2005
New York State Bar, 2008

Education
LPC, Nottingham Law School, 2002
LLB, University of Warwick, 2001

Professional Associations and Memberships
Member of the Editorial Board, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law
Member of Documentation Committee, Loan Market Association

Publications
Co-author, "US v European loan terms: countdown to convergence," JIBFL, October 2011
Co-author, "Problems of interpretation in dealing with audit qualifications," JIBFL, May 2011
"Perverse consequences? How the LMA Ancillary Facilities provisions distort pro rata sharing," JIBFL, March 2011

Languages
English

Citizenship
British