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Kahill Sarronwala is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s finance practice group, based in London. Kahill trained at the firm’s London office and gained experience in the private equity, investment funds, tax and finance teams.
In the finance practice group, Kahill has acted for private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, publicly listed companies, borrowers and issuers on a broad range of complex domestic and cross-border finance and capital market transactions including leveraged and acquisition financing, infrastructure financing, refinancing, fund financing and restructuring, as well as bespoke financing structures.
In 2024, Kahill was an associate on deals nominated for the following awards:
- shortlisted for “Banking & Finance Team of the Year” at the 2024 British Legal Awards in recognition of the financing of American Industrial Partners’ dual acquisition of the AquaShip and InterShip groups;
- shortlisted for “Finance Team of the Year” at The Lawyer 2024 Awards in recognition of the AtlasEdge financing; and
- shortlisted for IFLR Europe 2024 “Loan Deal of the Year” in recognition of the AtlasEdge financing.
Experience
- Advising Bridgepoint Development Capital on securing sterling-denominated term loan facilities and a multicurrency revolving credit facility to support a dividend recapitalisation in respect of the acquisition of Monica Vinader.
- Advising Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc, a company redefining the treatment of solid tumor cancers with cell therapy, on a US$125 million term loan facility with Hercules Capital, Inc.
- Advising Cable & Wireless Communications Limited, a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America Ltd., and its subsidiaries in connection with a $1 billion bond issuance of Senior Secured Notes as well as in connection with certain maturity extension amendments to the group’s revolving credit facilities.
- Advising Liberty Global and Virgin Media O2 on two complex high yield bond issuances: €600 million of its Senior Secured Notes due 2032, in accordance with Virgin Media O2’s Green Bond Framework, and $750 million of its Senior Secured Notes due 2032.
- Advising GHO Capital on the financing arrangements relating to the acquisition of X-Chem, a leader in providing DNA-encoded library drug discovery services.
- Advising Bridgepoint Development Capital on a unitranche and super senior revolving credit facility financing in connection with its acquisition of SK Aerosafety Group.
- Advising American Industrial Partners in connection with the syndicated infrastructure financing arrangements supporting its dual acquisition of the Aquaship and InterShip groups.
- Advising a secondaries fund in respect of a $250,000,000 subline facility.
- Advising Baring Private Equity Asia, now EQT Asia in relation to the financing aspects of the sale of Lumenis’ surgical business.
- Advising Partners Group on the financing aspects of a joint venture with Host Student Housing to construct a £1 billion UK purpose built student accommodation (PBSA).
- Advising Kohlberg & Co. on the English aspects of a dual asset-backed and term loan financing for the ski business of K2 Sports.
- Advising H.I.G. Capital and the University of Oxford in relation to the financing aspects of multiple joint venture acquisitions of recruitment businesses.
- Advising Liberty Global, DigitalBridge and AtlasEdge on a €725 million financing in connection with the joint venture acquisition of European data centres.
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