Stefanos Serfas

Primary Focus & Experience

Stefanos has extensive experience in public and private international capital markets and finance transactions and regularly advises issuers, underwriters and investors on high yield bonds, private placements, direct lending, financial restructurings and liability management transactions.

A selection of Stefanos’ experience includes advising:

• Metlen Energy & Metals S.A. on its €600 million bond offering.
• Intralot in connection with its €2.7 billion acquisition of Bally’s International Interactive Business and the Related Financings.
• The initial purchasers in connection with CMA CGM S.A.’s €700 million high yield bond offering.
• The Initial Purchasers in connection with Manuchar’s €425 million high yield bond offering and RCF lenders on the amendment and extension of the existing revolving credit facility.
• The Initial Purchasers in connection with Rekeep’s €360 million high yield bond offering and refinancing.
• The initial purchasers and lenders in connection with Flos B&B Italia S.p.A.’s €550 million high yield bond offering and refinancing.
• The initial purchasers on the financing of the acquisition of Somacis by Bain Capital and of A&S Korea by Somacis.
• Metlen Energy & Metals S.A. on its €750 million green bond offering.
• The initial purchasers in connection with CMA CGM S.A.’s €200 million high yield bond tap offering.
• The note purchasers in connection with the private placement by Borr IHC Limited, Borr Finance LLC and certain other subsidiaries of NYSE and Oslo Stock Exchange-listed Borr Drilling Limited of $155 million of senior secured notes due 2028.
• The initial purchasers in connection with CMA CGM S.A.’s €400 million high yield bond offering.
• The placement agents and note purchasers in connection with Grifols’ privately placed tap issuance of €300 million of senior secured notes due 2030.
• The note purchasers in connection with NYSE-Listed Borr Drilling’s $200 million placement of high yield bonds.
• Imagination Aero Investments Limited, a company wholly owned by Stephen Fitzpatrick, in connection with a commitment by the Investor to provide up to $50 million of funding to Vertical Aerospace Ltd. in the form of an equity investment, pursuant to an investment agreement executed in February 2024.
• The initial purchasers and lenders in connection with the offering by Fedrigoni of €665 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2030 and the upsize of its existing revolving credit facility.
• The initial purchasers and lenders in connection with the offering by International Design Group S.p.A. of €425 million of senior secured notes due 2028 and the amendment, maturity extension and upsize of its existing revolving credit facility.
• Yoda PLC in connection with its issuance of senior secured convertible bonds due 2025 initially subscribed by One Investment Holdings (UK) Limited in a private placement.
• Frigoglass S.A.I.C. on the successful completion of the consensual recapitalization and restructuring of the group of companies formerly controlled by it.
• BC Partners on the financing and other corporate matters in relation to their acquisition of the majority stake in Metropolitan College and AKMI IEK, the leading providers of post-secondary education in Greece.
• The financing sources to provide a debt financing package in support of Bain Capital’s joint ownership agreement for Fedrigoni with BC Partners and the initial purchasers in connection with Fedrigoni’s subsequent high yield bond offerings.
• The initial purchasers in connection with the financing of Apollo’s Acquisition of AS Graanul Invest, comprising €250 million floating rate sustainability-linked senior secured notes due 2026 and €380 million 4.625% sustainability-linked senior secured notes due 2026.
• The initial purchasers in connection with doValue S.p.A.’s €300 million high yield bond offering.