Biography
Ruslana Hrischeva advises on a broad range of debt finance and capital markets matters. Her practice covers leveraged finance, real estate and fund finance, restructuring and enforcement of security interests, securities laws and structured finance including securitisations, fiduciary structures, and structured products. She also advises on capital markets transactions more broadly, including debt issuances and listings on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
She works closely with asset managers, international financial institutions, corporates and supranationals on complex, cross-border financing and capital markets transactions.
She is an active member of and contributes to industry developments through her involvement with the Luxembourg Capital Markets Association (LuxCMA) and the Luxembourg Banking Lawyers' Association (ALJB). Ruslana is also a member of the Working Group on Sustainable Investment Products for Retail Investors of the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Ruslana began her career at the European Parliament and later worked at a leading international law firm in Luxembourg for 9 years before joining White & Case.
She holds a Master's degree in law from UCLouvain in Belgium, with a specialisation in banking and financial law.
Experience
Advised the mandated lead arrangers on the underwritten TLB and senior secured note financing for the recommended cash offer by funds advised by EQT and other co-investors for Intertek Group plc, the UK-listed quality assurance provider.
Advised Pareto Securities as manager with Nordic Trustee as bond trustee on Grupo Fertiberia's (Fertiberia) issuance of €300 million senior secured floating rate bonds due 2031 and a bank consortium led by Banco Santander, S.A. in relation to the super senior revolving credit facility.
Advised the underwriters and a club of private credit funds on a substantial multi-tiered senior secured and junior financing package to support the offer by a consortium led by CVC Capital Partners to take private the Italian pharmaceutical giant Recordati.
Advised Ares Management's private credit arm, a leading European alternative asset manager, as Luxembourg counsel on the €292 million acquisition financing of Safety21 S.p.A., a portfolio company of Bregal Unternehmerkapital, a leading European mid-market private equity sponsor.
Advised Charterhouse Capital Partners, a leading European mid-market private equity sponsor, as Luxembourg counsel on a senior acquisition financing provided by HSBC Continental Europe, Natixis and Bank of Ireland in connection with the acquisition of Metrodora Group and minority stakes in Novetude Santé, alongside Peugeot Invest.
Advised lasalle Investment Management, a global real estate investment manager, as Luxembourg counsel on a €110,000,000 sustainability-linked revolving credit facility for FCP Encore+, a Luxembourg-established fonds commun de placement managed by lasalle AIFM Europe S.à r.l
Advised Brookfield Global Infrastructure Advisor Limited, a leading global infrastructure investor, as Luxembourg counsel in connection with a holdco financing provided to a Luxembourg-based bidco of Arjun Infrastructure Partners for the acquisition of a stake in the Data4 portfolio.
Advised Starwood Capital, a leading global real estate investment firm, as Luxembourg counsel on a €94,500,000 back leverage facility provided on the private credit side to Vision Germany Holding S.à r.l., a Luxembourg holding vehicle, in connection with the refinancing of two German real estate assets.
Advised Bain Capital Credit, a leading global credit investor, as Luxembourg counsel in its capacity as original subscriber of notes issued by a European hotel group in the context of a continuation plan approved by the Paris Commercial Court, aimed at facilitating the group's exit from insolvency.
Advised BC Partners, a leading European private equity firm, as Luxembourg counsel on an English law-governed secured capital call facility in connection with BC Partners XI, a flagship buyout fund structured through multiple Luxembourg sociétés en commandite spéciale. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., London Branch acted as lender, agent and security agent.
Advised Elenia Verkko Oyj, as issuer, and its guarantors - including Luxembourg holding companies Elenia Holdings S.à r.l. And Elenia Investments S.à r.l. - as Luxembourg counsel on a dual-track capital markets transaction comprising a €500,000,000 3.375% Guaranteed European Green Bond issuance due 2033 and a concurrent tender offer for €500,000,000 of existing notes.
Advised J&F S.A., one of Brazil's largest conglomerates, and J&F Luxembourg Finance S.à r.l., as Luxembourg counsel on a USD 1.09 billion dual-track capital markets transaction involving a USD 600 million new money bond issuance and an exchange offer for USD 490 million of existing notes
Advised a banking syndicate, led by BNP PARIBAS, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Société Générale as global coordinators and active bookrunners, on HLD's €300 million bond issuance.
Advised Euronext Paris-listed emeis S.A. (emeis) on the refinancing of its existing debt, which will increase the average maturity of the debt by 2.5 years, bringing it to nearly five years, and will enable emeis to exit its accelerated safeguard plan ahead of schedule.
Advised Bourbon and Davidson Kempner Capital Management on the completion of Bourbon's financial and capital restructuring.
Advised a consortium of leading international lenders, including CIBC, ING Bank, kfw IPEX-Bank, SMBC, SEB and unicredit, on the complex financing structure of up to €1.6 billion for CEE RF9, Germany's largest repowering fund.
Advised Castik Capital S.à r.l. (Castik Capital) on the unitranche refinancing of its portfolio company alldent Holding gmbh (alldent).
Advised Mercuria, one of the world's largest independent energy and commodity groups, on a strategic copper offtake and prepayment transaction with Eurasian Resources Group (ERG).
Advised Huvepharma on a €130 million credit facility.
Advised Hameur Belgique SA (Hameur) on the sale of Magimix by Umami, a joint venture between Hameur and Ardian, to Lavafields Group SA (Lavafields Group), as well as Hameur's investment in Lavafields Group.
Advised inpost S.A (inpost), Europe's leading e-commerce logistics enabler, on its issuance of €850 million high yield bonds with an interest rate of 4.000% per annum, maturing in 2031.
Advised Aareal Bank on its initial financing of a data center, expanding its product portfolio to include a new asset class
Acted as exclusive counsel on the sale by Luxembourg-registered XX ZW Investment Group S.A., the majority shareholder in XTB S.A. (XTB), on the sale of a portion of its shares in XTB through an accelerated book-building process.
