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Practice Experience

Gareth Eagles is an associate in the Firm’s Banking group in New York. Gareth has experience of international bank finance transactions and has also worked on corporate acquisitions and contentious transactions. Gareth joined the firm in February 2003 and qualified as an associate in March 2005. He transferred to New York from the Firm's London office in 2007 and also spent 6 months working in the firm's Singapore office, in 2004/5.

Representative transactions include:

Acting for Nordea as mandated lead arranger and agent in connection with Getinge AB's £409 million recommended public offer for Huntleigh Technology plc;
Acting for Lloyds TSB in relation to the US$76 million refinancing of Volex Group PLC’s revolving credit facilities;
Acting for Deutsche Bank AG London as mandated lead arranger and agent in relation to the €355 million senior and €50 million second lien financing for the acquisition by Oaktree Capital Management LLC of Richmond Foods plc (a UK-listed company) by way of a scheme of arrangement and for a total deal value of €530 million;
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 and Lloyds TSB Bank plc as mandated lead arrangers and Rabobank as Issuing Bank in the €10.8 billion financing for the cash portion of Mittal Steel N.V.’s €25.8 billion bid to acquire French rival, Arcelor SA;
Acting for CIBC and JPMorgan on 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 relation to the recapitalisation of Ahlsell AB, a Nordic distribution business with operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Russia. The financing for the recapitalisation was arranged by Morgan Stanley and Nordea and totalled SEK 9.4 billion (approx. €1 billion) comprising senior, second lien, mezzanine and PIK facilities;
Acting for Nordic Capital in its €599 million acquisition of Outokumpu Copper Products Oy, a global copper products manufacturer. The transaction involved acquisitions of assets and shares in 15 jurisdictions;
Acting for Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers in the financing of the €630 million purchase by Warburg Pincus from Candover of Clondalkin Group Holdings Limited, an Irish paper and packaging firm. The financing of the acquisition was by way of €460 million senior secured debt and €170 million guaranteed unsecured bridge to high yield debt;
Representing Deutsche Bank on the US$500 million exit from Chapter 11 of Exide Technologies;
Advising an Indonesian coal producer on a US$385 million financing package, including the taking of new loans and the refinancing of existing acquisition loans;
Advising the lead arrangers in a trade finance facility for a bank in Kazakhstan; and
Representing the lender, facility agent and security trustee in the ECA-backed Japanese operating lease financing of an ATR 72-500 aircraft.

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

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

Languages
English

Citizenship
British