Charles McConnell

Charles' experience includes advising:

• An Asian-based fund manager and privately-owned US investment firm in relation to the senior secured financing made available to a SPV sponsored by a global private equity firm to refinance its existing indebtedness in relation to an underlying Indonesian shopping mall group.
• A leading Philippine bank in respect of margin financing of shares in an Indonesian listed consumer group.
• An international investment bank on a Vietnamese debt for equity swap.
• A private equity sponsor on the restructuring and refinancing of educational assets in Singapore and the PRC.
• The mandated lead arranger and original lender on a US$125 million term loan facility with an additional US$125 million accordion facility provided to an industrial and logistics real estate developer in Vietnam.
• Various international investment banks in a margin loan to a global private equity firm for investment in bonds issued by a Vietnamese company in the consumer sector.
• An international investment bank in respect of back leverage to a global private equity firm for investment in various bonds issued by a Vietnamese real estate group.
• An international investment bank in respect of financing to a global private equity firm for its acquisition of an interest in a Vietnamese schools business.
• A leading Philippine bank in a margin financing to a global private equity firm against shares of a clean and renewable power company in the Philippines.
• An international investment bank in a secured margin financing to the shareholder of an Indonesian copper and gold mining company.
• A private equity sponsor in relation to the recapitalisation of its education platform in South East Asia, including Vietnam.
• The arranger on the restructuring of various margin financings in respect of Singapore and Indonesian listed shares.
• The arranger on back-leverage on a minority stake acquisition of Philippines medical assets by a private equity sponsor.
• Michelin on the restructuring of Indonesian's first green bond issuance.
• The lenders in a term facility and a revolving credit facility amounting up to US$790 million granted to IBC Capital Limited, Goodpack IBC (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and Goodpack Pte. Ltd., a KKR portfolio company.
• A global investment banking group in the PKPU (Indonesian insolvency process) of an Indonesian textile group and related security enforcement and the restructuring of a financing with an Indonesian individual.
• A global investment bank as lender to borrower, Near, a SaaS platform that offers a source of advertising intelligence and its subsequent restructuring and repayment.
• RRJ Capital on its recapitalization buy-out merger of Singapore-based Fullerton Healthcare Corporation Limited.
• UTICO FZC, UAE's leading private water and power utility provider, in the approximately US$3 billion restructuring of the Hyflux group, a Singapore water and power conglomerate listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
• The banks and credit funds on the refinancing of a sponsor backed acquisition financing of a Vietnamese integrated hotel and casino.
• Credit Suisse, DBS and Maybank on the US$660 million loan facilities to Star Energy to part fund the Star Energy consortium's US$2.3bn acquisition of Chevron's geothermal assets in Indonesia.*
• Various funds and lenders on a US$275m mezzanine financing of the US$2.1bn acquisition by Medco Energi and AP Investment of an 82.2% interest in PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (which operates the Batu Hijau copper and gold mine on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia).*
• A credit fund providing financing and obtaining an equity interest in respect of the acquisition by a sponsor of an Indonesian restaurant group and the provision of working capital to the operating companies.*
• A credit fund providing financing in respect of the acquisition by a sponsor of development land in the SCBD, Jakarta.*
• A credit fund providing financing in respect of the acquisition by the sponsors of minority interests in an Indonesian logistics group and the provision of working capital to the operating company.*
• A credit fund providing a margin financing in respect of the acquisition by the sponsors of certain minority interests in a listed Indonesian hotel group.*
• BNP Paribas on the US$95 million fixed rate secured notes due 2034 and green long term facility agreement structured as a loan repackaging in respect of the development of sustainable natural rubber plantations in heavily degraded landscapes in Jambi Samatra and East Kalimantan provinces of Indonesia.*

*Experience prior to joining White & Case.