Sylvana Lee
Associate, London
Biography
Overview
Sylvana is an associate in the Firm's Debt Finance Group in London. Her experience includes advising banks and corporate borrowers on domestic and cross-border acquisition finance and general lending.
Sylvana spent six months working in the Firm's New York office, where she provided legal support to the Debt Finance Group on a wide range of matters.
Bars and Courts
England and Wales, Solicitor
Education
LPC
BPP Law School
LLB
King's College London
Languages
English
Cantonese
Experience
- Representation of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Goldman Sachs Private Credit, as lenders, on a SEK 1.07 billion facility increase and refinancing provided to TA Investors for the purposes of a share investment in Söderberg & Partners Holding AB, a provider of insurance brokerage and financial services in the Nordic region.
- Representation of Ares Management Limited (as lender and facility agent) on a DKK 3.7 billion term loan facility extension and refinancing provided to Nordic Capital's portfolio company, Conscia A/S, a provider of cybersecurity and IT infrastructure across Europe.
- Representation of M&G, MidCap and Permira as senior lenders and acting for HSBC as RCF lender, on the refinancing provided to Sterling Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical development and manufacturing organisation owned by GHO Capital and Partners Group.
- Representation of the Senior Lenders and Agent in connection with the debt financing of the acquisition by Zentiva (owned by Advent) of Alvogen's Central and Eastern European divisions.
- Representation of Royal Bank of Canada as global coordinator, senior lead arranger and original lender, on the debt financing package to support Lovell Minnick Partners' take-private acquisition of Charles Taylor plc, the leading international provider of professional services and technology solutions to the global insurance market.
- Representation of the mandated lead arrangers, as part of the financing for Lone Star Funds' acquisition of Stark Group, the largest retailer and distributor of building supplies in the Nordics.
- Representation of nine mandated lead arrangers, the agent and the security agent in connection with the provision of €600 million first-lien facilities backing Nordic Capital's acquisition of Alloheim, Germany's second largest nursing home operator, from The Carlyle Group.
