Ashley Ken is a Finance associate in London. Ashley acts for private equity sponsors, financial institutions and direct lenders on a wide range of multi-jurisdictional leveraged and acquisition financings. He has worked in London and Tokyo.
Representative experience includes acting for:
- CVC on multiple bids including for Singe Use Support and DB Schenker.
- Inflexion Private Equity Partners on the financing of its acquisition of GRC, and various bolt-on acquisitions.
- PAI on multiple bids including for Sanofi.
- Bain Capital on its financing for the acquisition of I.D.C by Valeo Foods.
- Permira on various debt financing matters including Safti.
- A&M Capital Europe on various financings including Ayesa Inversiones and Carton Pack.
- The arrangers and direct lenders on various KKR financings including KKR’s acquisition of IVI-RMA, Contabo, APRIL Group, Biosynth and Generalife.
- The lead arrangers in connection with 888’s acquisition of the international (non-US) business of William Hill at an enterprise value of £2.2 billion.
- The arrangers in connection with the $39 billion acquisition by AstraZeneca of Alexion Pharmaceutical, the largest acquisition financing and largest acquisition of a U.S. company of 2020.
- The lenders in connection with the notes offering and RCF for Cedia Finanz, a Blackstone company.