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Kwame Adzatia is an associate in the finance department of Ropes & Gray's London office.
Kwame’s background and experience spans general banking, international acquisitions, leveraged finance, alternative credit as well as asset-based lending transactions. Kwame has acted for international corporate borrowers and financial institutions, private equity sponsors, private credit lenders and family offices on a range of debt capital structures in the European mid-cap and large-cap markets.
Experience
Creditor Representations
- Advised Barings on the senior financing package supporting the recommended cash offer for Blancco Technology Group plc by Francisco Partners*
- Advised Barings on the financing package supporting the acquisition of Aspia by Vitruvian Partners*
- Advised Banque Palatine on the financing package for the acquisition of train sim developer and publisher Railsimulator.com Limited by one of Europe's leading video game developers and publishers, Focus Entertainment*
- Advised Capital One Healthcare, N.A. on financing the acquisition of a European home healthcare business by an international private equity sponsor*
- Advised a leading private credit fund on commitment papers supporting a sponsor's bid for a Norwegian biotech and pharmaceuticals company*
- Advised Highbridge Capital Management, LLC on providing the second lien financing for the acquisition of an Israeli-based telematics data management company*
- Advised Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. on its ongoing receivable financing arrangements with various debtors*
Borrower Representations
- Acted for Stellex Capital Management in connection with its platform investment in and acquisition of each of Bryden Capital Limited and MSS Products Holdings Limited*
- Advised INEOS Company Holdings Limited in connection with its acquisition of 50% of the equity interests in Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SINOPEC*
- Advised Interserve Group Limited on the separation of its Tilbury Douglas construction division as part of the wider reorganisation and restructuring of the Interserve group*
- Advised Diageo plc on the refinancing of its suite of backstop bilateral facilities with various international banks, including Banco Santander S.A., Credit Suisse AG, Goldmans Sachs Bank USA, Morgan Stanley Bank N.A. and Royal Bank of Canada*
- Advised multinational energy and commodity trading company Vitol SA in connection with its revolving credit facilities*
- Advised Finnish-listed forestry company UPM-Kymmene Oyj in connection with its liquidity financing arrangements with a syndicate of international banks*
- Acted for an affiliate of a corporate borrower on various private margin loan facilities*
*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray