Practice Experience
Tatjana Barendregt is an associate in the Firm's Frankfurt office. Tatjana's experience includes leveraged buy-outs (with senior, second lien, mezzanine and high-yield structures) and strategic acquisitions in both the UK and German market, domestic and cross border, secured and unsecured acting for equity investors, corporates and arranging banks.

She also has experience in single bank and syndicated loans, secured and unsecured with domestic and cross border security, single currency and multicurrency, acting for both borrowers and banks. Tatjana has worked on debt rescheduling, insolvency and restructuring work and has given legal advice in relation to arbitration cases as well as banking and corporate law proceedings.

She was seconded to the London office of White & Case in 2005 where she qualified as a solicitor.

Representative transactions include:

• Acting for Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Frankfurt branch) as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the granting of a €1.170 billion term, revolving and second lien facility to equity investor EQT IV Limited for the acquisition of all the authorized and issued share capital and/or business and assets of MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH and certain distributions and marketing units of DaimlerCrysler AG;
• Acting for ABN AMRO, CIBC and Fortis Bank as mandated lead arrangers on CVC's acquisition from WMO Beheer of outstanding shares in Wavin, the Dutch plastic pipes manufacturer involving €720 million term and €145 million revolver facilities;
• Acting for Deutsche Bank AG London as European Co-ordinator, Deutsche Bank AG London, Barclays Capital and The Royal Bank of Scotland as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bank of America as Co-Arranger in connection with the provision of $1 billion bridge financing and $350 million revolving credit facilities to equity investors, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital and Vornado Trust Realty for the acquisition of retailer Toys R Us Inc.;
• 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 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;
• Acting for Eurohypo Aktiengesellschaft as lender in the €259 million financing for the acquisition of a real estate portfolio consisting of 76 commercial properties in Germany by two real estate funds, REIT and APOLLO, advised by Sidell Limited;
• Acting for FI Equity Partners, a private equity subsidiary of ABN AMRO, in its acquisition of 24.9 percent of GFKL Financial Services Aktiengesellschaft, a leading German leasing and receivables management company;
• Acting for the mandated lead arrangers, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Credit Suisse First Boston International and Deutsche Bank AG London, in the provision of up to €900 million senior facilities to sponsors, Texas Pacific Group and CSFB Private Equity, for the acquisition of Grohe Aktiengesellschaft, and as German counsel on the subsequent high yield offering of €335 million 8.625% Senior Notes due 2014. Grohe is a leading supplier of sanitary fittings in Europe;
• Advised Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft as arranger of the financing of the senior facilities and Indigo Capital Limited as arranger of the mezzanine facilities for the acquisition of betapharm Arzneimittel GmbH by private equity funds advised by 3i Deutschland Gesellschaft fur Industriebeteiligungen GmbH from Santo Holding (Deutschland) GmbH for €300 million;
• Advised Crédit Lyonnais on the financing, refinancing and restructuring of the Center Parcs Group/Pierre et Vacances;
• Advised Allied Irish Banks in relation to loans to be granted to Celesio AG and Celesio Finance B.V.;
• Advised Triton Partners in relation to the refinancing and restructuring of the Keymile Group; and
• Advised Commerzbank (Senior Debt) and Indigo Capital (Mezzanine Debt) in relation to the financing of the acquisition of the POLYTAN Group.

Bars and Courts
Rechtsanwalt, 2001
Solicitor in England and Wales, 2006

Education
Qualified Lawyer Transfer Tests, 2005
Second State Exam, Higher Court of Limburg and Frankfurt, 2001
Referendariat, Higher Court of Limburg and Frankfurt, 2001
First State Exam, University of Marburg, 1999

Languages
English, German

Citizenship
Germany