Biography
Jacob Heath is an Associate in the Firm's Debt Finance Practice in London. Jacob has experience advising private equity firms, major banks, and private credit funds on finance transactions.
Jacob has also spent time on secondment in the Firm's Debt Finance Practice in Stockholm, and on secondment at Blackstone Credit.
Experience
Recent representative transactions and experience include advising:
CVC Capital Partners in connection with its joint venture with Therme Horizon, a global leader in large-scale urban wellbeing destinations.
CVC Capital Partners and Mehiläinen, a rapidly developing and growing leader in the social and healthcare services in Europe, on its €2.06 billion syndicated TLB and revolving facility financing and its subsequent €1.09 billion high yield bond issuance to fund, among other things, the acquisition of Regina Maria.
CVC Capital Partners and Maticmind, an Italian IT company focused on proprietary intelligence technologies and integrated solutions in networking, cybersecurity, data centers, cloud solutions and IoT and the financing of various subsequent transactions, in respect of ongoing aspects of the €250 senior loan million financing for CVC's investment in Maticmind.
Castik Capital S.à r.l. on the debt financing aspects of its acquisition of a majority stake in paraDIGMA group, one of the Netherlands' leading occupational health providers in the field of employee health & wellbeing.
Inflexion Private Equity Partners on its partnership with GlobalData plc to carve out its Healthcare business, GlobalData's largest division, as a standalone entity.
Sir Paul Marshall and Old Queen Street Ventures (OQS Media) on the target debt reorganisation related to their acquisition of The Spectator magazine.
Areim and EcoDataCenter, a Swedish data center company, on a €170 million debt financing.
Apollo and Tenneco, a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of automotive products for OEM and aftermarket customers, on the English law aspects of its asset-based credit facility consisting of aggregate commitments totalling approximately US$1.2 billion.
Armira on the debt financing aspects of its acquisition of Factor Eleven, a leading German digital marketing software company.
Mid Europa Partners on the debt financing aspects of its acquisition of Optegra, a leading ophthalmology business in the United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Poland.
The mandated lead arrangers including Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Natixis, UBS and JP Morgan in connection with the loan and bond financing (including €1.875 billion term loan B facilities, €720 million senior secured notes, €525 million senior unsecured notes and €400 million revolving credit facilities) for the acquisition by EQT and PSP Investments of Cerba HealthCare.