Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Steinhoff group's main creditors on the financial restructuring of its subsidiary Conforama, through a €316 million two-tranche bond issue.
Conforama, the leading European player in furniture retail in-store and online, finalized the bond issue on April 15, 2019 with around 30 equity and debt funds, all Steinhoff group creditors, in order to finance its activity.
Steinhoff executed an agreement in August 2018 with all of its creditors, which was approved by a Company Voluntary Arrangement in London in March 2019, enabling its global debt to be rescheduled and restructured and making it possible for its subsidiaries to be directly financed by its creditors. This approach was previously adopted with Steinhoff's subsidiary, Mattress Firm, as part of a Chapter 11 procedure.
The White & Case team in Paris which advised on the transaction was led by partner Saam Golshani and included partners Denise Diallo, Colin Chang, Alexandre Ippolito, Brice Engel, Alexandre Jaurett, Bertrand Liard and Alexis Hojabr, counsel Jean Paszkudzki and associates Aurélien Loric, Léa Grédigui, Alexandre Giacobbi, Laure Elbaze, Jeremy Lucas Tong, Bettina de Catalogne, Thomas Chardenal, Anne Sauvebois-Brunel, Céline Martinez, Ginevra Marois and Alice Léonard. Partner Iacopo Canino and associate Bianca Caruso (both Milan) advised on Italian law aspects of the transaction.
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