Maxwell Short

Primary Focus & Experience

Maxwell has experience acting for banks, private credit funds, other financial institutions, corporate borrowers, financial sponsors and investors on a range of banking and finance transactions, including leveraged buyouts (including public to private takeovers), “bank/bond” transactions, general corporate and working capital facilities and re-financings and international restructurings, involving both leveraged and investment grade borrower groups across Europe, the United States and elsewhere. 

A selection of Maxwell’s experience includes:

• Advising the initial purchasers in connection with SIG plc’s offering of €300 million 9¾% senior secured notes due 2029 and the lenders in connection with the amendment and extension of its £90 million revolving credit facility agreement.
• Advising the initial purchasers in connection with the offering by Rekeep S.p.A. of €360 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2029 and the lenders in connection with Rekeep’s new super senior revolving credit facility. 
• Advising Chane on its €1.3 billion debt refinancing, streamlining and optimizing its capital structure. The financing is underpinned by an investment-grade rating, with the new facilities secured across a diversified range of tenors from both bank and institutional lenders.
• Advising the initial purchasers in connection with an offering by Borr IHC Limited, Borr Finance LLC and certain other subsidiaries of NYSE-listed Borr Drilling Limited of $165 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2030. 
• Advising ION Group and its subsidiary ION Platform Investment Group Limited (“ION Platform”) in connection with its refinancing comprising (i) an exchange offer and consent solicitation across multiple series of existing senior secured notes previously issued by certain of ION Platform’s subsidiaries, (ii) a new-money offering of approximately $2.7 billion (equivalent) USD and Euro Senior Secured Notes due 2030 and 2032 and (iii) new senior secured term loan facilities of approximately $4.4 billion (equivalent) USD and Euro Term Loans.