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Kelly Gibson
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Kelly Gibson
Associate
5 Old Broad Street
London EC2N 1DW
United Kingdom
T: + 44 20 7532 1240
F: + 44 20 7532 1001
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Practice Experience
Kelly Gibson is an associate in the Firm's Banking & Capital Markets group in
London.
Kelly’s experience includes advising banks in relation to European leveraged finance transactions and general bank lending. Kelly has recently spent some time on secondment in the New York office.
Representative transactions include:
Acting for ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, CIBC World Markets PLC, ING Bank N.V. and Lehman Brothers International (Europe) as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the €1 billion acquisition of the Van Gansewinkel Group. The acquisition was a bolt-on to the existing AVR facility and it involved a debt element of €845 million;
Acting for Leaf Italia S.r.l in relation to a facility with Svenska Handelsbanken AB for the acquisition of Cadbury Italia SpA (renamed Saila SpA) ;
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 provides financing in 12 countries;
Acting as Deutsche Bank's counsel in connection with a bridge loan of approximately £180 million and related bridge documentation for an acquisition by Castle Harlan of Polypipe Building Products from vendor IMI plc. We subsequently acted for Deutsche Bank AG London as lead arranger on the is
sue by Pipe Holdings plc of £122 million 144A/Reg S Senior Secured Notes and £66 million 144A/Reg S Senior Unsecured Notes;
Acting for CIBC and JPMorgan on a 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 a further term debt, cash bridge and a second lien facility, the total amounting to US$1.35 billion new term facilities and a €60 million increased revolver;
Acting for
CIBC World Markets plc, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and Morgan Stanley Bank International Limitedas mandated lead arrangers in the provision of
€1.005 billion of senior debt, €70 million second-lien and €200 million mezzanine financing to CVC Capital Partners for the acquisition of Ruhrgas Industries GmbH, the metering and furnacing division of E.ON Ruhrgas AG. We also acted for Deutsche Bank in the provision of staple financing. The total size of the acquisition is €1.5 billion
including assumed debt and pension liabilities
; and
Acting for sponsors, CVC and Nordic Capital in the acquisition of CSM N.V.’s sugar confectionary division, involving a guaranteed and secured senior bilateral loan of €695 million provided by a Swedish bank, representing one of the largest European bilateral loans ever made in the leveraged market. The transaction involved acquisitions of assets and shares in 14 jurisdictions.
Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 2004
Education
LPC, Nottingham Law School, 2001
LLB, Sussex University, 2000
Languages
English
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British
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