Angus Graham
Leveraged Finance Partner, London
"I advise banks and credit funds on their most complex financing transactions. I combine a technical yet pragmatic approach with a deep understanding of the market to help clients achieve their strategic objectives."
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Overview
Angus is a partner in the London leveraged finance practice.
Angus represents underwriting banks and alternative capital providers on institutional financing transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged buyout, infrastructure and other acquisition financings. He also has experience advising on regulatory-driven and structured finance transactions, as well as restructurings.
Angus has completed extended secondments within the leveraged finance team at Goldman Sachs and the private credit group at PSP Investments, and was seconded for 18 months to the firm’s New York office, where he focussed on US and Latin American financings and restructurings.
Professional experience
Work highlights
Recent examples of Angus’s transactions include advising the finance parties on the following transactions:
- Apax: Financings for ADCO (Toi Toi & Dixi) and Safety-Kleen.
- BlackRock: The sponsor’s bids for Adriatic LNG Terminale and for a minority interest in IREN
- Brookfield: The public takeovers of alstria and Hibernia
- Carlyle: The public takeover of Schaltbau
- KKR (Private equity): The acquisitions and/or refinancings of Masmovil / Euskaltel / Orange Espagne, GfK, Roompot / Awaze, Accell Group, PortAventura and Master Distancia (and various other bids)
- KKR (Infra): The public takeover of John Laing and acquisitions of significant minority interests in Telxius and Reintel (and various other bids)
- KPS: The acquisition of Real Alloys Europe by Speira and other financing / refinancing transactions for Speira
- Redbird IMI: The acquisition of All3Media
- Shelf Drilling: On its ssRCF, term loan A and high yield bond financing.
- TDR: The public takeover by Stonegate of Ei Group plc
- Various transactions for corporates, including Shelf Drilling on its ssRCF, term loan A and high yield bond refinancing and Hensoldt AG on its acquisition of ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH
Recent examples of Angus’s transactions advising credit funds are:
- A-KKR: The acquisitions of Kimble, Reapit, Navtor, PayProp and Symfonia
- Apax: The sponsor’s bid for Zellis
- Astorg: The acquisition of Corden Pharmaceuticals
- Bain: The unitranche refinancing of MSX International.
- Bridgepoint: The acquisitions of Fenergo and a significant minority interest in ACT
- Advising junior creditors (2L, PIK and pref investors) on various sponsor-backed acquisition financings
Angus has presented on various leveraged finance topics at LMA and APLMA conferences in recent years.