Biography
Awen advises private equity sponsors, corporates, financial institutions and direct lenders on a wide range of financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance, as well as high yield financings, debt restructurings and refinancings.
Prior to joining the London office, Awen was an associate in the Paris office.
Representative experience as part of a team includes advising:
- The lenders in relation to the refinancing of CVC's portfolio company, Domestic & General
- Groupe Casino in connection with its debt restructuring
- Ceva on its €2.3 billion equivalent dual-tranche TLB and the refinancing of its existing indebtedness
- Ceva on its €600 million payment in kind financing in the context of a new investment round
- The Mandated Lead Arrangers and Original Lenders in connection with the €1.15 billion High Yield Offering by Bertrand Franchise and the implementation of a super senior revolving credit facility
- Towerbrook Capital Partners on the financing of its acquisition of GSF
- Infravia on the financing of its acquisition of Grandir from Eurazeo
- Meridiam on the financing of its acquisition of the “new Suez”
- Orange on the implementation of a €1.2 billion staple financing relating to the disposal of 50% of its subsidiary operating its rural fixed fibre infrastructure assets
- Rallye and Go Sport in connection with their respective debt restructurings
- Clayton Dubilier & Rice and WWWLutz on the financing of their acquisition of Conforama and the subsequent refinancing of Conforama's senior indebtedness
- GSAM’s financing of Insight Partner’s acquisitions of I@D and AMCS