Benjamin Morrison
Biography
Overview
Ben is an associate in the Firm's Debt Finance Practice in London. Ben's experience includes advising on a range of domestic and cross-border acquisition finance transactions acting for private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, other borrowers and banks.
Ben was previously on secondment to the Debt Finance team in the Firm's New York office, and also spent six months working in the Firm's Paris office.
Experience
Maticmind, 2022
Representation of CVC Capital Partners in connection with the senior loan €250 million financing for their investment in Maticmind, an Italian IT company focused on proprietary intelligence technologies and integrated solutions in networking, cybersecurity, datacentres, cloud solutions and IoT.
Alvogen, 2022
Representation of the Alvogen group various financing activities.
K2 Partnering Solutions, 2022
Inflexion on the acquisition financing for the investment in K2 Partnering Solutions.
Mehiläinen, 2021
Representation of Mehiläinen, a Finnish health services provider, and its majority-owner CVC Capital Partners on the issuance of an ESG linked incremental facility worth €1.06 billion.
IMA, 2020
Representation of BC Partners LLP and SOFIMA on the €1.25 billion high yield bond and €400 million debt facilities for the acquisition of IMA S.p.A., an Italian publicly-traded company and world leader in the design and production of automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, tea, coffee and tobacco, including through a public takeover offer. The transaction values the equity of IMA at approximately €2.93 billion.
Swissport, 2020
Representation of Swissport, a multinational cargo/airport ground services provider, on their debt restructuring and new financing process including a new €500 million term loan facility and up to €200 million revolving facility.
Cherry AB, 2019
Representation of a consortium including Bridgepoint on the debt financing for a $1 billion (SEK 9.2 billion) public takeover offer for Cherry AB, a Sweden-based gaming company.
Bridgepoint's public takeover offer for Cherry AB, 2019
Advised a consortium including Bridgepoint on the debt financing for a $1 billion (SEK 9.2 billion) public takeover offer for Cherry AB.
Recordati, 2018
Representation of CVC Capital Partners on the €3.4 billion bridge to bond facilities and €250 million revolving credit facilities, for its acquisition from the Recordati family of the holding company that owns a 51.8 percent stake in the Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati and subsequent public takeover offer for the remaining shares.
CVC Capital Partners' acquisition of Recordati, 2018
Advised CVC Capital Partners on the €3.4 billion bridge to bond facilities and €250 million revolving credit facilities, for its acquisition from the Recordati family of the holding company that owns a 51.8 percent stake in the Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati and subsequent public takeover offer for the remaining shares.
CVC's acquisition of Mehiläinen, 2018
Advised CVC on the €810 million senior facilities and €200 million second lien facility for its acquisition of the Mehiläinen Group.
Advent's acquisition of Brammer, 2017
Advised GSO in relation to its financing of Advent's acquisition of Brammer Limited (formerly Brammer plc).
Bridgepoint's acquisition of Zenith, 2017
Advised Bridgepoint on its £425m term loan B financing (and £110m undrawn facilities) for the acquisition of Zenith – the largest ever Sterling unitranche financing.
