Hyder's recent experience includes multiple complex multi-jurisdictional banking, asset / wealth management, FMI, payments, fintech and specialty finance transactions, including:

• Representation 4finance on the sale of the tbi Bank group, with consumer finance banking operations in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Turkey, to private equity investor Advent International.
• Representation of UniCredit, one of Europe's top 10 largest banks, on:
  • its acquisition of the 8.9% stake in Alpha Services and Holdings, the holding company of Alpha Bank held by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund; and
  • its acquisition of an approx. 90% equity interest in Greece's Alpha Bank's Romanian subsidiary, Alpha Bank Romania.
• Representation of The Co-operative Bank on:
  • the sale of The Co-operative Bank by its shareholders, GoldenTree, Silver Point, Anchorage, Cyrus,Invesco, J.C. Flowers and Bain Capital, to Coventry Building Society;
  • the acquisition of a significant minority interest in The Co-operative Bank by J.C. Flowers & Co and Bain Capital; and
  • its formal sale process under the UK Takeover Code and successful capital restructuring and change of control, including £250 million of new investment by a committee of bondholders and £450 million capitalisation of Tier 2 bonds.
• Representation of National Bank of Pakistan, one of the largest state-owned banks operating in Pakistan, on the sale of its 45% stake in United National Bank, a UK banking JV with United Bank Limited, to the Bestway Group.
• Representation of the bondholders on the restructuring and recapitalisation of Metro Bank, comprising £325 million equity capital raise and £600 million debt refinancing.
• Representation of LHV Pank, Estonia 3rd largest bank, on the licensing of its UK subsidiary, LHV Bank, and the transfer of certain assets and liabilities from the LHV Pank London branch to LHV Bank by way of a banking business transfer scheme under Part VII of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
• Representation of The Republic of Uzbekistan on its inaugural bank privatisation, structured as the sale of the Uzbek State's majority equity stake in Ipoteka Bank to OTP Bank in 2 tranches, spread across 3 years.
• Representation of Alpha Bank, the largest of Greece's 4 systemic banks by market capitalisation, on:
  • the disposal, by way of competitive auction process, of Alpha Bank Albania to OTP Bank; and
  • the disposal, by way of competitive auction process, of Alpha Bank Srbija, to AIK Banka.
• Representation of UK-based FIG specialist financial sponsor Syndeo Capital on:
  • its long-term strategic partnership with iFAST Corp, the Singapore listed fintech unicorn, in relation to iFAST Global Bank (previously named BFC Bank); and
  • its winning auction bid to acquire BFC Bank, a fully-licensed UK deposit-taking institution providing cross-border banking and FX services.
• Representation of Union Bank of Nigeria, one of Africa's longest-standing and most respected financial institutions, on:
  • the disposal of the bank, by way of competitive auction process, by Atlas Mara and its other controlling shareholders to Titan Trust Bank; and
  • the disposal, by way of competitive auction process, of its UK banking subsidiary, Union Bank UK, to MBU Capital.
• Representation of sovereign wealth investor Mubadala on the disposal of Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank, the first digital corporate trade bank, to Gulf Islamic Investment.
• Representation of neo banking unicorn Klarna Bank on its entry into the UK banking market through its acquisition of the retail and e-commerce financing arm of Close Brothers.
• Representation of SoftBank Vision Fund on its US$390 million equity investment in OakNorth Bank, the #1 largest European neo bank investment at the time.
• Representation of PPF on its inaugural 35% equity investment, as well as subsequent equity and debt investments, into ClearBank, the 1st challenger UK clearing bank in 250 years.